World Upside Down | On Guard Against Gospel Drift Galatians 2:11-14

Galatians 2:1-16

Accountability is essential in the church because every Christian is susceptible to gospel drift.

“We need accountability. Left to our own devices, we will soon devise or succumb to all kinds of evil. As Christians we know that we need other believers to hold us to the standards of Scripture. Life is far too difficult and we are far too sinful to live in solitude. We need community. We need accountability. And God has anticipated our need by giving us the local church as the primary means of this accountability.” — Tim Challies

– No matter how mature in faith, we all continue to have indwelling sin that must be dealt with.

Romans 7:15,18-19 // 1 John 1:8

– Biblical community affords relational proximity which affords healthy opportunity for others to see our sinful proclivities.

Proverbs 18:1 // Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 // Proverbs 27:17

– The Bible presents correction by those who love Christ and love us, not as something we should fear but something we should desire.

Proverbs 9:8, 27:6 // Psalm 141:5 // Hebrews 3:13

– While strong, public rebuke is sometimes necessary, ordinarily correction should take the form of a gentle and relatively private appeal to believe the gospel afresh.

Matthew 18:15 // Galatians 6:1 // 2 Timothy 2:24-25