The Uncultured Saints

In Episode 8 of Season 7 of the Uncultured Saints, Pastors Goodman and Lietzau are tackling Galatians 4:12-31:  

Topics discussed in this episode include:

> What is Paul’s bodily ailment he talks about in this text?
> How the Galatians first received Paul and the gospel.
> Why Paul is so perplexed by the change in the Galatians.
> Why law and gospel can’t be mixed when it comes to salvation.
> Why we cannot rely on our works to secure our salvation.
> What it means to be children of the promise rather than slaves to the law.
> How the Gospel speaks to both the sinner and the sinned against.
> Why forgiveness does not mean someone must immediately stop hurting or resume a relationship as if nothing happened.
> The promise of the resurrection: Our hope for the day when the pain and shame caused by sin will be gone.
> Can we forgive ourselves?
> And more!

Contributor Rev. Harrison Goodman is the Higher Things Executive Director of Missions and Theology.

Contributor Eli Lietzau is the pastor at Wheat Ridge Evangelical Lutheran Church in Wheat Ridge, CO. 

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What is The Uncultured Saints?

We’re told the same thing over and over. Christianity doesn’t fit with today’s culture. The thing is, it isn’t the culture saying it. It’s the church. We’ve done a great job figuring out what we’re not. Sometimes we forget what we are. We’re the saints, washed in the blood of the lamb. We’re sinners Jesus made holy. This defines us. There are places Christianity doesn’t fit with today’s culture because Christianity isn’t bound by culture. We’re free in Christ to be uncultured. Not against it. Not apart from it. Undefined by it, because we’re defined by something greater. Join Pr. Goodman and Pr. Lietzau, the uncultured saints, as we tackle today’s issues through the lens of the Lutheran Confessions and find answers to today’s questions rooted in a timeless truth in Christ.