1. TRANSFORMATION: How God Changes People?
chapter 2
TRANSFORMATION: How God Changes People?
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where
the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
2 Corinthians 3:17

2. The goal of Christianity is Christlikeness!

3. There are Three Types of Change:
1. Reform

4. There are Three Types of Change:
1. Reform 2. Conform

5. 1. Reform 2. Conform 3. Transform
There are Three Types of Change:
1. Reform 2. Conform 3. Transform

6. 1. Reform 2. Conform 3. Transform
There are Three Types of Change:
1. Reform 2. Conform 3. Transform
External change, dependant on human effort
What we do to change
Complete change: External and Internal, not dependant on human effort
What God does to change us

7. Change is a Partnership
In the same way continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling. It is God who produces in you the desires and actions that please him. Philippians 2:12-13

8. 3 Agents God Uses To Change Us

9. Hearing, Holding and Knowing
3 Agents God Uses to Change Us:
1. Truth
Hearing, Holding and Knowing
truth brings freedom
To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, "If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." John 8:31-32

10. 3 Agents God Uses to Change Us:
2. Holy Spirit
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lords glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
2 Corinthians 3:17-18

11. Read, study and meditate on God's Word
3 Agents God Uses to Change Us:
3. Renewed Mind
Read, study and meditate on God's Word
Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what Gods will is - his good, pleasing and perfect will.
Romans 12:2

12. The video is a scene from the life of Peter where he denies Jesus three times.

13. Personal Application