“Therefore, brothers and sisters, in view of the mercies of God, I urge you to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God; this is your true worship.” (CSB – Read the chapter)
I loved calculus. I was kind of…okay…a lot of a nerd in school…and still today…so that shouldn’t come as much of a surprise. I think it’s because I had a terrific teacher for Calc 1 and 2 in college (and 3 too, but by then I already loved it, so that didn’t matter quite as much) which helped enormously. I think I enjoyed math so much generally because it fits with how I’m wired. There’s generally one way to do a problem and it’s either right or it’s not. In any event, acknowledgment of my weirdness aside, not a few students sitting in an upper level math class like that wonder the same thing: how is any of this ever going to have any practical meaning in my life? In other words, what am I honestly supposed to do with this? Or, more simply, so what? Paul has spent the previous 11 chapters of Romans offering up a lot of theology without much in the way of application. Starting here in Romans 12, he sets about fixing that. Let’s begin the next phase of our journey today: what to do with the Gospel.
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