Quotes About Transformation

necesitamos entender que la teología nunca es un fin en sí misma, sino que es un medio para alcanzar un fin: ser cada vez más como Aquel que es la definición por excelencia del amor.

la gracia del evangelio no busca cambiar los aspectos religiosos de nuestras vidas; más bien busca cambiar todas las cosas que nos definen y nos motivan

truth like this is revelation that completely changes the posture of my life.

What is God doing in the here and now? He is employing the difficulties of life as tools of grace to produce character in you that would not grow any other way.

Faith is something that you do with your life. True biblical faith doesn't stop with thought; it radically rearranges the way that you approach everything in your life.

The biblical model of waiting is not simply about what you will get at the end of your wait, but about who you will become as you wait.

But here is the reality: all of the horizontal battles are the fruit of a deeper war. The most important war, the one that needs to be won, is not the war they are having with each other, but a war that wages within them individually. Real change is all about winning this war.

We don't obey to get his favor; we obey because his favor has fallen on us and transformed our hearts, giving us the willingness and power to obey.

So we have only one place of hope, one solid rock on which to stand, and that rock is Christ Jesus. Only when we admit that we have awe-fickle hearts will we begin to reach out for and cling to the forgiving, transforming, rescuing, and delivering grace of Jesus.

The church is a community of unfinished people living in a broken world and still in need of God's forgiving and transforming grace. The church isn't meant, for either leaders or those being led, to be comfortable; it's meant to be personally transformational.

God didn't give us his grace in order to make our little claustrophobic kingdoms of one work, but to invite us to a much, much better kingdom.

No podemos tratar a la Biblia como una serie de conocimientos terapéuticos. Esto distorsiona el mensaje y no dará lugar a un cambio perdurable. Si un sistema puede darnos lo que necesitamos, Jesús nunca hubiera venido.

Grace means we are not held to our worst moment or cursed by our worst decision. Grace means out of the ashes of sin, leaders can rise because the Savior has resurrection power.

Your Redeemer knows. Your Redeemer understands. Your Redeemer cares. His grace has been unleashed and its work will not be done until every last sin-broken thing has been fully and completely made new again. Be encouraged, your Redeemer is at work!

Knowledge is an accurate understanding of truth. Wisdom is understanding and living in light of how that truth applies to the situations and relationships of your daily life. Knowledge is an exercise of your brain. Wisdom is the commitment of your heart that leads to transformation of your life.

Paul is saying that we do the right that we do because grace is at that moment rescuing us from ourselves. Grace is protecting us from the self-righteousness and self-sovereignty that would make us all too independent and all too rebellious. Every moment of our obedience is an evidence of and a celebration of the grace that not only forgives but rescues, and not only rescues but transforms. We live in God's sight not in our own strength, but only by grace.

He has invaded your marriage with his powerful love and transforming grace.

si la principal fuerza que impulsa el liderazgo en las iglesias locales de todo el mundo fuera el evangelio de Jesucristo, muchas de las cosas tristes que hemos visto en las vidas de los líderes y sus iglesias no habrían sucedido.

You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside. OSWALD CHAMBERS

He placed himself under broken and unjust human rule in order to liberate us from self-rule and transform us into people who celebrate and willingly submit to his rule.

The overall biblical model is this: God transforms people's lives as people bring his Word to others.

Our struggle with sin is so deep that it was not enough for God to forgive us, so he also unzipped us and got inside of us by his Spirit.

You and I need to say it to ourselves again and again. We need to look in the mirror and make the confession as part of our morning routine. Here's what we all need to say: "I am not a grace graduate.

One of the most beautiful, hopeful, and encouraging gospel themes that courses its way through Scripture is the theme of fresh starts and new beginnings. Fresh starts and new beginnings are a hallmark of the rescuing, forgiving, restoring, and transforming power of God's grace.