Being Preceded Doing

In him you were also circumcised, in the putting off of the sinful nature, not with a circumcision done by the hands of men but with the circumcision done by Christ having been buried with him in baptism and raised with him through your faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead. Colossians 2:11-12

Last Sunday our journey through Romans brought us to Paul’s challenge to the Jewish people that the circumcision which marked their covenant with God was useless unless it was preceded and accompanied with a changed heart. It is the heart that must first be transformed, the behaviors then flow from that transformation; the being precede the doing. 

Why do you exist? Take a second and sit with that question. What is the purpose for God creating you? Take a minute and write it down. 

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