Gospel Origins

The Origin of the Gospel

Have you ever had a moment where someone tells you about something you have never heard of before?

Over the last year and half I have been inundated with new information, changing information, conflicting information, truthful information, and certainly false information. I have never had more times in my life where I have simply had this look of surprise, and uncertainty, knowing I was facing a mountain of unknowns.

All of us have gaps in our knowledge that is simply being human. When it comes to life in general there are three types of knowing; what you know, what you don’t know, and what you don’t know you don’t know. What you “know” will always be the smallest part of your knowledge with “what you don’t know” as the next smallest with “what you don’t know you don’t know” as the largest area of your knowledge or lack of knowledge. Once we understand this- how important is it to select the right type of knowledge to fill up our “what you know” aspect of who we are?

According to Donald Rumsfeld (former Secretary of Defense under two administrations), “There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don’t know we don’t know.”

The Galatians through Paul had received the known knowns. This is all they needed to know. The grace of God, turned loose on the world through the death of Christ, is all the knowledge they needed to meet their spiritual needs. But others would come who attempted to discredit, to question the validity of the known gospel, and insisted that the Galatians needed to know more. They had now been confronted with known unknowns that would ultimately lead to unknown unknowns. This caused them to develop misgivings about whether the gospel they knew was the “whole story,” and whether the known gospel would get them to where they needed to go spiritually.

Come and join us as we continue in our study of Galatians as we understand that knowing the true gospel will always produce real faith rather than a false gospel that will always produce the fashion-- or favored truth-- of the day. Are you faithful, rather than fashionable?