A DIFFERENT GOSPEL

Lectionary text: Galatians 1:6 - I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel—

Paul’s epistle to the churches of Galatia doesn’t start
        as his other letters do, with an expression from his heart
of thanksgiving for their faith and love.  He rails at them instead
        for departing from the gospel he had taught them. They’d been led
to accept a different gospel that was not good news at all.
        There was nothing that more quickly would evoke the wrath of Paul:
“Those who preach a gospel other than the one you heard from me
        and accepted, let those persons be condemned eternally!”