Last week, we were studying from the first half of Galatians 5. We learned that we have freedom in Christ, but that there’s a paradox in that the freedom we have in Christ is the freedom to do what is right. The problem is that we often choose to do what we want rather than what we ought. We allow our personal preferences and self-serving attitudes to take over our lives. This causes division and backbiting with the church. We’ve got to keep our eyes on the prize—we cannot lose sight of God’s mission for our church.

As we learn to keep in step with the Spirit–and our fellow believers also–the result is that believers are not just trying to be unified… they really are unified! The are “keeping in step” with the Spirit and one another!