It is assumed by Paul that “sin will not govern in our physical bodies to make us do what it wants, and that we will not go on giving our bodily parts to sin as tools of unrighteousness, but give ourselves to God as those whose physical bodies have already died, and our bodily parts to God as tools of righteousness” (6:12–13). The problem currently is that we have little idea—and less still of contemporary models—of what this looks like. Consumer Christianity is now normative. The consumer Christian is one who utilizes the grace of God for forgiveness and the services of the church for special
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