Pastor Josh continues to teach us through Romans 12 this morning:
“It may shock you, in this modern age, to see that Paul does not deal with the problem of pride by appealing to the concept of equality…Paul’s larger emphasis in these chapters is the unity of the church….(T)he shocking thing here is that the church is not called to unity by seeing our equality, but by seeing our diversity. Certainly, Paul has earlier emphasized the equality of all people - in that we have nothing of value to offer God and have done nothing to deserve anything good from God at all.…(but) the central point here is that each believer has something unique to contribute to the proper functioning of Christ’s body, and that despite our many inequalities, we can have unity when we each offer ourselves as living sacrifices to God by existing for each others’ good…”