In her book, Shepherds For Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded Truth For A Leftist Agenda, Meghan Basham writes, "There's a running joke in evangelical institutions . . . about an unspoken Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not criticize church leaders." She goes on to say, "What the Eleventh Commandment has meant in practice is that even as prominent pastors and theologians have spent the last few years accommodating every sort of secular, progressive influence, critical or even cautioning voices have been slow to respond." Well after reading these verses today in Galatians chapter 2, it should be obvious that the Apostle Paul never heard of the "11th Commandment" because he took on the foremost leader of the New Testament church face-to-face in one of most memorable episodes recorded in Scripture here in our text today. Peter undermines the gospel of grace – the very same gospel that he himself preaches – he undermines it not with his words, but with his behavior, and the Apostle Paul wasn't going to stay quiet about it, and herein lies the main takeaway from this passage this morning, that Christians who drift from the gospel must be confronted and corrected.
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