Tag: Romans 12

‘The Gospel of Little Commitment’ (Chalcedon Editorial, 2017)

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“Be not conformed to this world…”  –Paul (Romans 12:2)

We return to this theme again and again: churches “reach out” so far, they’re not in the church anymore.

https://chalcedon.edu/blog/the-gospel-of-little-commitment

We have all had experience, I daresay, of theologically flabby churches that stop just short of outright apostasy–not because they have a horror of apostasy, but because they were just too blamed lazy to go any farther.

But remember: we are the Church: all of us who believe in Jesus Christ Our Lord, who call upon His name, and put our trust in Him. It’s not the building, it’s not the denomination. It’s “the holy catholic church” of the Apostle’s Creed, the universal family of all Christ’s people.

Some of whom can even be found in megachurches.

‘A New Hymn for a Defeated Church’ (2013)

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Hmm… What’s changed, since I wrote this five years ago?

Not much, I’m afraid. I keep plucking on this string, “Be not conformed to this world,” a warning first uttered by St. Paul in Romans 12:2.

https://leeduigon.com/2013/10/28/a-new-hymn-for-a-defeated-church/

Coming up next: Audio and video to go with it!

 

Use Your Gifts to Change the World Wednesday – Conforming and Modeling — His Perfect Timing

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From a fellow Christian blogger: be transformed, not conformed   –LD

So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into…

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By Request, ‘We Are an Offering’

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Thank you, Erlene, for suggesting this–We Are an Offering, by Chris Christian.

In light of the constant seepage of bad news, let us remember Paul’s exhortation to Christians to “offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God” (Romans 12:1). God will use us: He will let us enter into His work. And bearing in mind that He uses weak things to overthrow the mighty, and foolish things to confound the wise, and things that are despised to undo the things that are honored by this fallen world (1 Corinthians 1)… it may be that He’s got the bad guys right where He wants them.