A Pained and Personal Pastoral Plea Galatians 4:12-20 A faithful Gospel minister urges God’s children to freedom in Christ and to the formation of Christ in them. 1. The exhortation to imitation and freedom in Christ. (Galatians 4:12-16) 2. The exhortation to zeal and the formation of Christ. (Galatians 4:17-20)