Somewhere along the way, worship got reduced. Trimmed from a whole life poured out before God into a set of songs we rate on Sunday morning. We inherited a tradition of worship that cost people everything — men and women who gathered in secret, in brush arbors and praised the God of their liberation when doing so could cost them their lives. And somewhere, we turned it into something that costs us nothing.
Romans 12:1–2 interrupts that. Paul doesn't ask for a song. He asks for a body. Offered. Living. Sacrificed. A sacrifice that keeps getting off the altar isn't a sacrifice. It's a negotiation.
One question to sit with: What are you placing back on the altar this week?
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