Section 3
work with Israel by His work with the church. Thus, we must pay our full attention to the church life.
After eleven chapters of discourse in Romans, Paul comes to the ultimate point, the church life, in Romans 12. Paul uses five chapters to cover the church life. The section on the church life begins in a specific manner, with Paul saying, "I beg you therefore, brothers" (12:1). Paul was begging us to present our bodies physically and practically for the church life. After begging us to present our bodies for the church life, Paul pro ceeded to the second part of our being, our soul, and spoke to us regarding our need to be trans formed by the renewing of our mind (12:2). Our soul needs a radical, essential, and metabolic change in both nature and form. Our whole being needs to be changed for the sake of the church life, for nothing natural, common, worldly, or modern is suitable for the Body life. We need a metabolic transformation through the inward working of the divine life element. We need a radical revo lution in our thought, emotion, and will. Once we undergo this kind of metabolic transforma tion in our whole being, we shall be good for the church life. Furthermore, once our body has been presented and our soul transformed by the