Romans twelve (specifically 12:11 today) is one of the few chapters in the bible which deals extensively with the attitudes and characteristics of our Christian life. The idea behind this, and one which I personally strongly adhere to, is that these should be carefully outworked by us in our lives rather than just ‘believed’. Today we will deal with the only one verse in chapter 12 and if you missed the first part on “Worship, Loving and Devotion” then you can check it out here. There will be more to come. Please feel free to share with me what you think on these verses.
Rom 12:11 Don’t be lazy in showing your devotion. Use your energy to serve the Lord.
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The Apostle Paul writes so many times about “Zeal” throughout his many letters, and as the Christian Church (I refer to this without denomination, of course!!) it is important that we begin to take heed of these words. He has spoken about the dangers of Zeal previously, in that we must be careful that our zealousness is for good (Gal 4:18) and that also we must avoid zealous Hypocrites, i.e people who looks only for others to enlarge their own ranks and nor the ranks of Christ. It is in this that this very in the book of Romans tells us its true purpose. Therefore zeal should only be used with the sole perspective of serving Christ the Lord.
January 30, 2008 at 10:32 am
Hey!! You have a blog!! And it has theological stuff!!!
cool!! I totally agree on the need to ‘outwork’ the Character of Christ. My own thoughts on Christian character, conduct and behaviour is that the Bible stes before us a high standard that most of us are falling way short of. However my own conviction is that to solve the problem we must get to the root of it. Most of teh epistles (particuarly Romans) has doctrinal sections and practical sections. Paul begins with doctrine and emoves to practice. i.e he expounds on the doctrie of sin inorder to explain the current lawlessness and evil behaviour in the world. After dealing with the doctrine of God, wrath, judgement and grace, he explains how Christians might practically partake of it. He then gives a doctrine of sanctification (to be understood in light of the other doctrines) and then goes on to describe how Christians should live. This is why I always begin with doctrine before dealing with behaviour or ‘the practical’ . Just a few thoughts!!! by the way great stuff yer writing! J
February 1, 2008 at 11:52 pm
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