Galatians: Introduction

This post begins a study through the book of Galatians. Galatians is a great letter with some powerful lessons. To begin, I will give you some background on the letter.

Galatia was a Roman province in Asia Minor, which is now the modern nation of Turkey. Paul and Barnabas established churches in this area on their first missionary journey. Soon after they left, their teaching came under attack.

Some Jews, who claimed to be Christian, from Jerusalem visited these churches. They said that they had the authority of the Apostles behind them. These false teachers taught that Paul was an inferior Apostle. They also taught that the law of Moses must be obeyed by Christians in order to be saved.

Paul was in Antioch when he heard about this. He wrote this letter in response around 49 AD.