Romans 12:1-6

Well, this is a funny story. Here I am a small group leader, and as such, people have entrusted me to guide them through these verses we read together. I find that part of my job is to, uh, at least make sure those in the study can at least remember what book of the Bible we are studying.

My wife was talking to one of our small group members about a verse in Romans, and this person said, "I don't know much about Romans," at which point my wife said "BUT FOR THE LAST YEAR WE'VE BEEN STUDYING ROMANS IN SMALL GROUP!!!"

Boy, that really gave me warm fuzzies. :-)

Our Small Group discussed the beginning of Romans 12 last time. We enter another phase of discussion - the way we are to live our lives as Christians. We discussed what it meant for us to offer ourselves as "living sacrifices." We compared the sacrifices we make and those that missionaries make. We showed that The three biggest problems that we as Christians face are in the first three verses:

1. A lack of consecration, or yielding our lives to God 2. Becoming conformed to this world 3. Pride - thinking more highly of ourselves than we ought.

We finished up with discussing how each individual has a role in the Body of Christ.

This section is filled with great verses that we could spend all day on, so take a look at Romans Chapter 12 and see what Paul says, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, is good and fruitful living pleasing to the Lord.