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Romans chapter 12 – Living Sacrifices (GNB)

Romans chapter 12 – Living Sacrifices (GNB)

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Romans chapter 12 – Living Sacrifices (GNB)

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  1. Romans chapter 12 – Living Sacrifices (GNB) 1 So then, my friends, because of God's great mercies to us I appeal to you: Offer yourselves [bodies] as a living sacrifice to God, dedicated to his service [holy] and pleasing to him. This is the true worship [spiritual worship/reasonable service] that you should offer. 9 Love must be completely sincere. Hate what is evil, hold on to what is good. 10 Love one another warmly as Christians, and be eager to show respect for one another. 11 Work hard and do not be lazy. Serve the Lord with a heart full of devotion. 12 Let your hope keep you joyful, be patient in your troubles, and pray at all times. 13 Share your belongings with your needy fellow Christians, and open your homes to strangers.

  2. “If anyone wants to be my follower, you must deny yourself, take up your cross daily, and follow me.” “Discipleship involves a little bit of dying every day.” Week 1 – Worshipping God Week 2 - Review (Repentance & Removal) Week 3 – Relationships “So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other.” (John 13 v 34 – NLT)

  3. What does this kind of love look like • in a church family? • It’s about doing a little dying to ourselves, and making space in our lives for others. • It’s about sacrificing some of what we love – our friendships, our leisure, our comfort-zones, our own time – to make room for someone else. • It’s about genuinely recognising those around us, engaging with them, listening to their stories. • Its about sharing ourselves, being open, being humble, counting others as more important than ourselves. • Its not about finding a quick fix or solving their problems, but ‘being there’, walking a journey with others, • investing some time, supporting and serving others.

  4. Loving others is about • Knowing and being known (Self-disclosure) • Caring and being cared for (Care-giving) • Serving and being served (Humility) • Correcting & being Corrected (Truth-telling) • Celebrating and being celebrated (Joy) • Therefore the community of believers must be a refuge, a place of unparalleled affections and service that will at once set it apart from its environment. • In the early third century, Tertullian wrote, “It is mainly the deeds of a love so noble that lead many to put a brand upon us! ‘See,’ they say, ‘how they love one another…see how they are ready even to die for one another.’” • In the earliest church the social caring and commitment of Christians to one another was a profound testimony in a Roman world with its sharp social divisions.

  5. But it is the mandate of the church to become a community of love, a circle of Christ’s followers who invest in one another because Christ has invested in them, who exhibit love not based on the mutuality and attractiveness of its members, but on the model of Christ, who washed the feet of everyone – including Judas.(Gary Burge, Commentary of John) You are invited to pray this week, for the five families or households ahead of your name in the Church Directory.

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