Romans 12:1-2<\/span> \u201cI appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.\u201d<\/p>\n The crucial thing to our sanctification is the renewal of our minds. The key question is how does this happen? J.B.Phillips said it right when he translated this verse \u201cdo not let the world squeeze you into its mould\u201d<\/p>\n We have to see our minds as like spongues. They can be squeezed and moulded not just by propositions and a conscious acceptance of certain truths but by what we are exposed to on a dripfeed basis day by day. We must not passively allow this process to happen.<\/p>\n Our brains are neural networks that create associations and structures between words and concepts- it is in my view those very associations that good preaching is designed to change.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Romans 12:1-2 \u201cI appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1268,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-romans"],"yoast_head":"\n