Galatians 5:6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything; the only thing that counts is faith working through love.
Paul was caught up in a big controversy with the newly converted Christians in Galatia about whether they had to be circumcised (and follow all the other Jewish laws) in order to consider themselves fully Christian. That's not our issue today. I don't think there's a lot of concern or arguing about circumcision in churches today.
But there is a lot of distraction. A lot of worrying and arguing about things that really don't matter in an ultimate sense. Because really nothing matters in an ultimate sense except the faith that we share in God and the love that flows out of us from that faith. That's it. If we have that, we're in good shape as the church. Simple. And difficult.
In Christ,
Pastor Seth
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