Developing a Christian Mind - part 4
4. The Christian mind contrasts with the worlds pattern and is renewed to know God’s will “Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God – this is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is – his good, pleasing and perfect will. (Romans 12:2) The Spirit not only empowers us to do God’s will, as we saw in the last post, He also brings about a progressive transformation in us towards greater Christ-likeness in order that we can recognise what God’s will is. Scripture (the subject of part 2 in this series) does not answer every question we have about what it means to serve God faithfully. We are confronted with many situations where we must make choices that Scripture does not specifically speak to. In the...