Living Sacrifices
Life In Christ Bible Study
Presents
Living Sacrifices
October 5, 2024
Romans 12:1-8
Presented by Michael Webb
Open It
- *What skills or qualities are necessary to play a team sport well?
- What influences have significantly shaped your life?
Explore It
- How do people properly worship God? (12:1)
- What is the most reasonable response to God’s great mercy? (12:1–2)
- *How is the Christian to be different from unbelieving people? (12:2)
- How should the mind of a Christian be changed? (12:2)
- What must happen in order for a person to discern and agree with the will of God? (12:2)
- How should Christians think about themselves? (12:3)
- What facts should keep a person from feeling superior or inferior to other Christians? (12:3–6)
- *What did Paul use the human body to illustrate? (12:4–5)
- What makes Christians different from one another? (12:4–6)
- In what way are all Christians alike? (12:4–6)
- What are the gifts of God? (12:6–8)
- *How should each person use his or her gifts? (12:6–8)
Get It
- What right does God have to ask us for a full-life commitment to Him?
- *What makes offering our bodies as living sacrifices an act of worship?
- To what worldly life-styles or values do we typically conform?
- What are the patterns of the world that tempt us to conform?
- How can a Christian renew his or her mind?
- How does understanding God’s love raise our self-esteem?
- How does understanding God’s love reduce our selfishness and conceit?
- How do people unite in Christ act toward each other?
- *How can the gifts God bestow on Christians help others in the church or community?
- What gifts from God do you see in others?
- What gifts from God do you see in your life?
Apply It
- What is one step you can take this week toward eliminating habits that merely conform to the world’s pattern?
- *How can you put a spiritual gift to work for others this week?[1]
Scripture:
Romans 12:1-8 (NKJV)
Ro 1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.
2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
3 For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith.
4 For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function,
5 so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another.
6 Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, let us prophesy in proportion to our faith;
7 or ministry, let us use it in our ministering; he who teaches, in teaching;
8 he who exhorts, in exhortation; he who gives, with liberality; he who leads, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.