Most of us know what it feels like to carry something we can't seem to put down, guilt from years ago, shame that follows us into church, the exhausting cycle of trying to prove we've changed. Bishop-Elect Mack opened Galatians 5:1 and made a case that the greatest battle most believers face isn't outside them, it's inside them, the gap between being technically free in Christ and actually living free. He walked through the book of Galatians to show how false teachers were telling new believers that Jesus plus faith wasn't enough, that they needed to add religious performance on top of grace, and how that same lie is alive today every time we feel like we have to earn what God already gave us. The whole sermon landed on one point: freedom in Christ is not something you work toward, it's something you choose to stand in, and the only question left is whether you're going to keep fighting the lifeguard or finally let him pull you out.