Commissioning Daisy with Interserve today we are
sending Daisy out to serve at a school in SEAsia with Interserve. We believe
that it is right under God to send Daisy out to share the word of God and her
life with people in the community where she will live and work. She will be
looking to us to pray regularly for her and to give financially and also to keep
in touch by email. The passage set for today is Galatians 2:1-10. It speaks of
Paul defending the truth of the Gospel and of the fact that this Gospel of Jesus
was effective because Titus , a non Jew who was not circumcised had come to
faith in the Lord. Behind this passage lays the great issue of how the Jewish
and Gentile Christians would learn to relate to one another. There were some
who were seeking to impose Jewish practises upon the Gentile converts such as
the need to be circumcised and obey the Law of Moses as a basis for salvation.
Paul is directed by the Lord to go Jerusalem and is concerned that the future of
Gospel message is at stake because of these false teachers who were perverting
the Gospel. Paul is teaching us that it is through Christ alone that people are
saved and come into the Kingdom. We see this conflict play out in Acts 15 as
the Jerusalem Council discussed this issue of Gentile converts and what would
be required of them. Paul makes a strong stand refusing to accept these
requirements be added. He saw it as an attempt to attack the Gospel freedom
which they had found in Christ. God accepts people from all nations who put
their faith in Jesus alone. This is the message Daisy carries with her to SEAsia
and we believe people will come to faith. God’s Blessing Rev David O’Mara Continue Reading..