#141 – Romans 12:1-2

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.

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

• Romans 12:1-2, Romans 5:1, Matthew 16: 13-28, 1 Corinthians 1:20, 2 Corinthians 2:16, Colossians 3
• Knowing Faith Romans Resources

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