Sermon
Freedom to Love Your Neighbors
Center Church
Speaker: KJ Washington
September 21, 2022 · 29 min
Summary
Using Galatians 5:13–15, the pastor teaches that Christian freedom in Christ must compel believers toward selfless love of neighbors rather than self-indulgent sin. The gospel's redemptive power changes not just individual hearts but relationships—within the church and the wider community—calling Christians to leverage their freedom to serve and build up others.
Highlights
If Jesus does not change our relationships personally, then can the gospel change us at all? If the gospel cannot just change us in our hearts and not change us in our relationships, you might believe a truncated gospel.
Christian freedom is from sin, not the freedom to sin. And when we turn the blind eye to our neighbors, that is us sinning against them.
Christ paid the ultimate sacrifice on the behalf of us so that we could have a right relationship with God through Jesus and his blood. That should propel us to move forward and to care adequately for other people because we remember what Christ selflessly did for us.