Man Talk

Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh? — Galatians 3:3 CALL OUT: This is to all the men who use these daily devotionals to disciple others. It's pretty simple: share the devotional with another man, and then use the questions below to spark a quick discussion. I know many men use these daily devotionals for weekly small group meetings as a discussion guide for their time, and you can, too. If you read this in context, you will see Paul posing several questions in Galatians 3:1-6. With each, he builds a list of logical dilemmas. This one presents a logical fallacy about spiritual maturity—that spiritual maturity is not perfected by human effort. This means human effort from beginning to end is insufficient in attaining or achieving our spiritual maturity. Many young believers get this wrong. They wrongly believe that spiritual maturity is attained and achieved by how much they know or how long they believe. The reason we get this wrong is that the world's syst