Episode #141 – Romans 12:1-2

Episode Summary:

Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley discuss Romans 12:1-2.

Questions Covered in This Episode:

  • 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.

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