The Problem With Living Sacrifices – Paperback

What happens after you surrender your life to God-and discover that you keep taking parts of it back?

In Romans 12:1, Paul calls believers to offer themselves to God as a “living sacrifice.” There is something remarkably honest about that description. A living sacrifice can get up. It can reconsider. It can become afraid, reclaim control, protect what it once surrendered, and quietly crawl off the altar.

In The Problem with Living Sacrifices, Bill Riggs explores what surrender looks like after the emotional moment has passed and ordinary life resumes. With a practical, Scripture-grounded approach, he examines the places where our desire to trust God collides with our instinct to remain in control: our plans, possessions, relationships, reputation, work, success, failures, physical abilities, regrets, future, and even our understanding of who we are.

This is not a book about becoming passive, abandoning responsibility, or pretending that the things we love do not matter. It is about learning the difference between responsibility and sovereignty, stewardship and ownership, faithful planning and the illusion of control. It is about discovering that surrender does not diminish a meaningful life but frees us to live one without demanding that work establish our worth, money guarantee our security, other people determine our identity, or tomorrow unfold according to our plans.

Most importantly, this is not a book about achieving perfect surrender. Living sacrifices sometimes crawl off the altar. Fear returns. Pride resurfaces. Control feels necessary again. The Christian life is not defined by never struggling with these things, but by learning to recognize them sooner and return to the mercy of God.

Drawing readers back to the powerful words of Romans 12-“in view of God’s mercy”-The Problem with Living Sacrifices offers a thoughtful exploration of what it means to belong completely to Christ while still living an ordinary human life.

Because the altar was never meant to be the place where life ends.

It is where we finally discover whom our life belongs to.