Episode 9 · Galatians 5:22-23
The Fruit We Never Bring Home
We fill the cart with every easy fruit of the Spirit: joy, peace, kindness. Then we hit the aisle for patience and self-control and quietly abandon the cart.
Pundayschool · Passage · New Testament
Galatians: devotionals and study guides
Paul's fiery letter about grace to the churches of Galatia: rescued people do not earn their way back into slavery. Pundayschool has landed in its final chapters twice, on the fruit of the Spirit and on doing good.
In short
Galatians is Paul's letter about grace to the churches of Galatia: people rescued by Christ do not earn their standing back through rule-keeping. Pundayschool has covered two passages from Galatians so far: Galatians 5:22-23, the fruit of the Spirit, in The Fruit We Never Bring Home, and Galatians 6:10, doing good as we have opportunity, in Someone Should. Both come with a free devotional and small group study guide.
The passages
Episode 4 · Galatians 6:10
Someone Should
The church is full of people named Someone. “Someone should welcome them.” “Someone should help.” Nobody has ever met Someone.
One verse to hold
"Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers."
Galatians 6:10, NIV
Questions people ask
What is Galatians about?
Paul writes to churches being told they must add rule-keeping to grace. His answer is that freedom in Christ is real freedom, and that the proof of the Spirit's work is not rule-keeping but fruit: the character that grows in people the Spirit is changing.
What are the fruit of the Spirit in Galatians 5:22-23?
Love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. The Fruit We Never Bring Home pictures us shopping that list like a market stall, loading the sweet ones and abandoning the cart at patience and forgiveness, then discovers they all grow on the same trees.
What does Galatians 6:10 mean?
As we have opportunity, do good to all people, starting with the family of believers. Someone Should turns it into a character: the imaginary church volunteer named Someone who handles every unclaimed job. The verse's answer to 'someone should' is that someone is you, and grace starts small.