{"id":1080,"date":"2011-03-02T06:30:36","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T12:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/?p=1080"},"modified":"2011-03-10T20:32:51","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T02:32:51","slug":"living-life-as-offering-of-worship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/living-life-as-offering-of-worship\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Be An Offering: Living Life as an Offering of Worship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a  href=\"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/living-life-as-offering-of-worship\/bible_med\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1081\" title=\"Finding How to be a Living Sacrifice\" src=\"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/bible_med.jpg\" alt=\"Light shaft hitting a Bible with a pen resting on the top\" width=\"595\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/bible_med.jpg 595w, https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/bible_med-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every day we make choices. \u00a0We chose <strong>this <\/strong>over <strong>that. <\/strong>We chose to <strong>spend <\/strong>or <strong>save<\/strong>. \u00a0<strong>What do our choices say about us?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The subheading of this blog, and the theme of my life and ministry, has become &#8220;Living a Life of Worship.&#8221; \u00a0<strong>Throughout my life I&#8217;ve made many choices that have definitely not accurately reflected that sentence in my life<\/strong>. \u00a0I&#8217;ve used &#8220;<a title=\"Posts on how to be an Offering | I am an Offering\" href=\"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/category\/offerings\/\">how to be an offering<\/a>&#8221; off and on for quite a while while never being consistent. \u00a0So, it&#8217;s time for a change, and a challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Starting today, and continuing every Wednesday, I&#8217;d love for you to join me in proclaiming ways that we offer our lives as living sacrifices to our amazing and gracious God.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Read and meditate on <a title=\"YouVersion | Romans 12:1\" href=\"http:\/\/bible.us\/Rom12.1.ESV\" target=\"_blank\">Romans 12:1-2<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Write a blog post and link back here or<\/li>\n<li>record a quick video with some thoughts or<\/li>\n<li>Tweet a sentence about it or<\/li>\n<li>Post a Facebook status update with your sentence and include a link back here.<\/li>\n<li>Be sure to tag whatever you do with #livingsacrifice.<\/li>\n<li>If you can&#8217;t do any of these things, at least leave a comment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Would you join me in this challenge of really starting to think about the choices we make, and shifting our thinking into becoming living sacrifices for our worthy Creator<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>(<a title=\"Creation Swap | Justin Knight\" href=\"http:\/\/www.creationswap.com\/justinknight\" target=\"_blank\">photo by Justin Knight<\/a>)<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 5px 5px 0;float:left;height:50px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/living-life-as-offering-of-worship\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"595\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every day we make choices. \u00a0We chose this over that. We chose to spend or save. \u00a0What do our choices say about us? 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