The next book we will study is Galatians.
Galatians is thought to have been written after the Jerusalem Council of Acts 15, which would date it sometime after AD 49.
It was written by the Apostle Paul to the churches he had founded in the region of southern Galatia: Pisidian Antioch, Iconium, Lystra and Derbe.
His main concern in writing this letter was to counter the teaching of the Judaizers who were undermining the central tenet of NT doctrine that salvation is by faith alone. These false teachers ignored the decision of the Jerusalem Council (Acts 15:23-29) and taught that Gentiles had to be circumcised and submit to all the Mosaic law before they could become Christians.
“Paul wrote Galatians to defend justification by faith and warn these churches of the dire consequences of abandoning that essential doctrine.” (The MacArthur Study Bible)
As you read through, Chapter 1 this week keep these thoughts in mind and ask yourself why it is so important that Paul defend his own apostleship first before exposing the false doctrine of the Judaizers.
