RENEWING OUR MINDS Romans 12:2
a New Way of THINKING
about the important things in life Our current ways of thinking about the important things in life Good and Bad Truth and Lies Love Happiness Success is conformed to this world
Now this I affirm and insist on in the Lord: you must no longer live as the Gentiles live, in the futility of their minds. They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of their ignorance and hardness of heart. They have lost all sensitivity and have abandoned themselves to licentiousness, greedy to practice every kind of impurity. That is not the way you learned Christ! For surely you have heard about him and were taught in him, as truth is in Jesus. You were taught to put away your former way of life, your old self, corrupt and deluded by its lusts, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to clothe yourselves with the new self, created according to the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness. Ephesians 4:17-24
We’ve lost SENSITIVITY for how far our thinking is from JESUS’ thinking
The WORLD places itself at the center of all things and teaches us to do the same
Our current way of thinking leaves us feeling: unfulfilled unloved unhappy afraid unattractive not good enough lonely desperate
Our current way of thinking needs to be TRANSFORMED to JESUS’ Way of thinking
We need to become JESUS THINKERS: ruled by Jesus and not us or any other influence
We need to become JESUS THINKERS: filled with LOVE and the HOPE of Eternal Life
We need to become JESUS THINKERS: seeing ABUNDANCE and not scarcity
We need to become JESUS THINKERS: OTHER-SERVING and not SELF-SERVING
We need to become JESUS THINKERS: BELIEVING all things are POSSIBLE through HIM
We have to let the HOLY SPIRIT teach us to use the MIND of CHRIST in us
We have the MIND of CHRIST!