Homework, just in case you needed some

Romans 12
Questions

By the Grace God has given you are you able to challenge others? Why would you need to be aware of the grace of God just remind people how to think?

How do you think of yourself? To highly? To Lowly? In accordance with Measure of faith God has given you? Or in accordance with how the world thinks about you? In accordance with how God's word talks about you or in accordance with the world?

How does being a living sacrifice affect you being joined to others in a body? Which is more of a sacrifice, Serving God or serving others? Why?
Different parts with different functions: What about this requires transforming your mind? How does this require sacrifice? How does this naturally affect us...if we weren't learning to transform our minds?

One body...corporately, as a region, and world wide: how does that change your natural thinking (or how SHOULD it change your natural thinking) ?
Do you behave as though you really do belong to all the others?
Name someone who behaves as though they were connected to all the others.
Think of skin, although there are many cells skin covers every area of the body, connecting from the toe to the top of the head to the finger tips, Excluding of course eyes & finger/toe nails. Skin doesn't get much credit. How many times have you heard someone say “Oh, i just hurt my elbow and my elbow skin!” ? Or “I have a zit on the skin of my forehead!”? There is something about belonging to each other that assumes that together each individual part succeeds or suffers. Do you demand to receive credit? Or do you love to bless people, suffer with people, rejoice with people and be ok with not being given credit for it doing it “in secret”?
Name some one who seem to understand being connected or “belonging to each other” in the Body.
Tell some of the things that they do.
Name some ways that you could improve in this area.
Is having compassion on some one easier when you know them more? How about constructive criticism?
What Gift do you think that you have? ( Or do you want to receive from God?) What about this gift requires renewing or transforming your mind? What about this requires some dieing (living sacrifice) from you?
“Using it according to the proportion your faith” makes me think that you have to be renewing your mind, letting God build your faith, learning how to think, in order to really be everything God has called you and gifted you to be.
(c) Mary Walker 2007, used with permission