Welcome to the Bible Study. I'm Stephen Lawson, president of One Passion Ministries.

And each week I will teach verse by verse through the passage of scripture

so that you can better understand the word of God

and put it into practice in your life. Join me now as we look together into this

section of the Bible. We're so glad that you've joined us. We're going to be in Romans 12

verses 3 through 8. I don't know if I'm going to be able to get all the way through

verse 8. The title of this study is Grace to Serve Others, Romans 12, 3 through 8, and I know that I need

to begin in a word of prayer, so why don't you join me in prayer. Father as we begin this

study this morning we pray that your Holy Spirit would be the teacher that he

would illumine our minds and open our understanding of this text and that he would also bring application to our own hearts,

that there would be both conviction and comfort at the various places that we touch on in this

study.

I pray that you would meet with each of the people who are joining us wherever they are from around the world, minister to their

hearts and to their lives.

Pray this in Christ's name, Amen.

All right. Well we want to begin by looking into our text, Romans 12.

I want to begin by reading the passage beginning in verse 3. for through the grace given to me, I say to everyone among you, not to think

more highly of himself than he ought to think, but to think so as to have sound judgment

as God has allotted to each a measure of faith.

For just as we have many members in one body

and all the members do not have the same function,

so we who are many are one body in Christ and individually members of one another.

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