#141 – Romans 12:1-2

What is the “therefore” there for?
What is the substance of Paul’s appeal?
What are the “mercies of God?”
What background information or experiences is shaping Paul’s language in these verses?
What do we mean when we say “cruciform life?”
V. 2 Conformity to the world. What are false stories we are tempted to be conformed to?
What does it mean to be transformed? How do we experience the “renewal of our mind?” What is the chief consequence of this renewal and transformation?
When you say we need to start talking about worldliness, what are you saying?
Do you think people are comfortable with calling something ungodly?

Helpful Definitions:

Theology: Doctrine of God
Anthropology: Doctrine of humanity
Soteriology: Doctrine of salvation
Passive Imperative: Something we are supposed to do but it is entirely reliant upon God's Holy Spirit doing it in us.
Cruciform life: The Christian life is shaped by the cross, not only our intellect and our mind but in our formative practices.
False Stories: A narrative that gives you a vision of the good life that ultimately ends in death.
- Romanticism: The story that tells you that you are your emotions.
- Consumerism: The story that tells you, “You are what you have.”
- Pragmatism: The story that tells you, “Whatever works must be true.”
- Postmodernism: The story that tells you that there is no big story because all experiences and stories are equally valid.
- Perfectionism: The story that tells you, “You must be perfect, good, and right in order to be accepted.”
- American Civil Religion (Moral Therapeutic Deism): The story that tells you, “Let’s cut the rough edges off of Christianity to make it palatable to modern sensibilities.”
- Secularism: This idea that the natural world we are living in is all that there is and there is no supernatural involvement.
True Spiritual Worship: Loves the things that God loves in the way that God loves them.
Worldliness: Loving something that God doesn’t love or loving something that God loves but in a way that is not the way that God loves it, making it an idol.

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

Romans 12:1-2, Romans 5:1, Matthew 16: 13-28, 1 Corinthians 1:20, 2 Corinthians 2:16, Colossians 3
Knowing Faith Romans Resources

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