Exchanging the Truth for a lie…

One way or another, we have all ended up at the customer service desk of our local retail store.

I imagine it’s highly likely both you and I have found ourselves talking to a Target, Walmart, Harris Teeter, K-Mart, or Big Lots employee – asking them for an exchange of the product we had purchased.

Romans, chapter 1, is one of the most fundamentally important chapters in the Bible. This chapter is not above all other passages, but perhaps better described as below all other passages. Romans 1 gives us a foundation to understand the majority of the Bible. Here Paul, the author of the letter to the Church in Rome, explains basic Christian theology at a kindergarten level. Within this one chapter, we learn the eternal fate of the human living on a remote island far from civilization; we are challenged to find comfort found in God’s promise to bless the preaching of His Gospel; and we certify our beliefs about gender, sex, drugs, idols, family, and Judaism. There is one verse in this chapter that always sticks out to me – verse 25 says, “. . . because they