When one offers one’s body to God as a living sacrifice (Romans 12:1), it involves not only a one-time act of dedication, but a habitual, repeated bodily exercise (1 Corinthians 9:24–27; 1 Timothy 4:7–8) involving specific body parts (Romans 6:12–13, 19), resulting in putting to death one’s bad habits (Colossians 3:5), i.e., removing the flesh that resides in those body parts and replacing them with a righteousness that comes to reside in the members of one’s body. A Christian spiritual discipline