So over the past week in class we have read the book of “Galatians” which is about Paul writing a letter to his church in Galatia, who had started to be taught a wrong way of being a Christian. In Chapter 2 of Galatians Paul mentions a fight he and Peter had, which was about how Peter would hang out with the Gentiles until another Non-Gentile was around and then he would leave. So why did Paul get mad at Peter? Well it’s pretty simple, Peter was afraid of what his followers would think of him. He didn’t want to be caught with Gentiles so his friends wouldn’t think he was weird or unclean or something else. So Paul got mad at Peter telling him he was in the wrong, and that it shouldn’t matter who we preach to and we shouldn’t care what others think, much like if you see the weird kid in class sitting alone by himself. You might want to go sit with him, but your friends are watching, so you decide not to. So a lot of us are a lot like Peter in this case and we need someone like Paul to set us straight. So what could the church learn from all of this? They shouldn’t worry about what everyone else thinks! Jesus obviously didn’t, and he changed the world! If we stopped caring about what other think and just started just doing it think about what could we do!!
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