Saved to serve: The Christian’s reasonable service
Dennis Lee explores Romans 12:1 to establish the inseparable connection between Christian doctrine and life, arguing that justification by faith alone necessarily produces a life of active service and sanctification in the church. The article emphasizes that Christian service is not merely optional but the "reasonable" and logical outworking of genuine faith, flowing from a proper spiritual attitude toward God's sovereign grace.
"I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service." Romans 12:1 It is a fundamental tenet of the Christian religion that doctrine is inseparably connected to life. The two go together. Without one, there will not be the other. That tenet is perhaps nowhere more clearly set forth than in Romans 12, right after the holy apostle had spent the first eleven chapters of this epistle...
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