Healthy Habits | Part 1 | Body

Vineyard Groningen Sermons

In this series, we are not going to focus so much on the what of those practices, but try to dig deeper into Biblical values and truths that undergird our healthy habits. Why do we come to a new year with resolutions to eat healthy, exercise more, read more, grow in our relationship with God and things like that? Why should we aspire to live healthy anyway? Christians have always understood that a human being consists of a body, soul and spirit. Paul, in his closing remarks to the first letter to the Thessalonians mentions them explicitly together: may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. In this three-week series, we are going to reflect on each part of our humanness; body, soul and spirit, getting a Biblical view on that part of us, so that we can care for it well; with the right awareness and motivation. We will start off today with the body. This message aims to give a Biblical perspective on the human body that can help us to discern the lies of advertisement and the idolization of our world of health and beauty – and instead, give a Biblically-founded motivation and practical application of how we can incorporate caring for our bodies as part of our discipleship to Jesus.