Our passage today details an account of Paul having to publicly confront Peter, who, out of fear of man, had divided himself from the Gentiles after being unified with them. Last week, we saw one way this passage encourages us to live in step with the gospel: by uniting under it. Today we’ll explore two more ways to live in step with the gospel.

Paul wanted the Galatians—and us—to fly up into a life of freedom and love, and he knew that the gospel message could take us there (Gal. 5:13). But as we’ve seen, the Galatians were in danger of destroying the gospel message by adding to it, so Paul wrote this letter to defend the message of the gospel of grace. Today’s passage details a third, less peaceful interaction of defending his message.