{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"North Coast Church Life Groups Leader Guide","title":"Leader Guide 2026: Fall Week 4 - Ours, Not Just Mine (Romans 12)","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1263,"description":"Week 4: Ours, Not Just Mine (Romans 12)\nThis weekend Chris stepped out of Matthew for a week to ask whether we actually get surrender. The passage is Romans 12, and the thing I couldn’t stop looking at is one word of grammar in verse 1: bodies, plural; sacrifice, singular. Your group isn’t where you go to work out your own surrender. It’s where you go to work out ours.\nAlso this week: a quick tour of the guide, why the “six steps” question is the easiest place in the guide for someone to feel graded, what to do when someone’s honest answer is “I’m still waiting for the freedom part,” and the first real mailbag, including a leader who caught a wording change in last week’s question (he was right).\nFour weeks in, leading a group can start to feel like a job. Verse 11 has something to say about that.\nIn this episode\n0:00 Cold open: Paul’s big “therefore,” and whose sacrifice this is\n2:00 Welcome, and what’s coming in future episodes\n3:00 Tour of this week’s guide, plus the optional Kinship Question\n8:00 Going further: what the “therefore” is there for, Augustine on the corporate sacrifice, the sacrifice that keeps crawling off the altar, metamorphoō, and the same verb in verses 13 and 14\n12:00 Three moments to be ready for: the six steps and the app, “not yet” as a complete answer, and the veteran with every step lit\n15:00 Mailbag: the three-year group that tried the Kinship Question, and the “if Jesus said it, it must be true” problem\n18:00 How to send things in, and one tiny practical thing: bring a note card\n19:20 For you in particular: keep your spirit boiling (Romans 12:11)\nScripture: Romans 12:1–21 · Romans 9–11 · Exodus 20:2 · Matthew 17:2 · Philippians 3:12\nMentioned: Augustine, City of God · Joe Versus the Volcano · Henri Nouwen on discipleship · Next baptisms: November 7–8\nLinks\nQuestion feedback: https://form.jotform.com/262746046113049\nLeader Mailbag: https://form.jotform.com/262745325562056\nEmail James: jbrowning@northcoastchurch.com\nSubscribe:...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/m9bfTaE2mOdr2NKnUpiGKcguOTHmDlHsmyPKkEiviSA/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9hMjc2/OTNhMTJkZmQzYTc3/NjdhYmZiODg5M2U1/YjNlZC53ZWJw.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}