Good Morning and welcome to our Sunday morning worship.This week we continue our journey through Galatians and look at the causes of Paul’s astonishment in chapter 1. But let’s begin by singing God’s praises:

So now we bring our prayers to God:

Our reading today is from Galatians 1:6-10

⁶ I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you to live in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel – ⁷ which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ. ⁸ But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let them be under God’s curse! ⁹ As we have already said, so now I say again: if anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let them be under God’s curse!

¹⁰ Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.

Talk by Glyn – Christ and the curtain-twitchers

Here’s an audio version

We bring to God our prayers for the church and the world:

To close, let’s say the grace for each other: