Sustained in Conflict (Galatians 2:11-21)
Opening Thoughts
Galatians 2:11-21
Peter’s action
What Peter did
How it impacted others
Paul’s rebuke
Paul’s interpretation
Paul’s “sermon”
Takeaways:
Discussion Questions:
- Describe your group of friends in junior high and/or high school. Why did you end up in that group?
- Have you ever been on the outside of a group wondering how you could be accepted? What was that like?
- Talk about what it would have been like to be the different characters in this event: Peter? Barnabas? Gentiles whom Peter had eaten with? Paul? With whom do you most resonate, and why?
- If you were there to hear Paul’s rebuke, what would you have thought or said or done?
- What do you believe about “justification,” and how does this text confirm or adjust your own thoughts?
- What is something you still don’t understand about this text?