Over the next seven weeks we’ll be exploring the nature of transformation; What is it? How does it happen? What does it take to transform? It’s likely there’s something each of us would like to change about ourselves. We want to change. We want life to be different. We long for more. But we get stuck, tired, likely followed by feelings of shame and frustration when no matter how hard we try, we can’t seem to actually make the change we long for.
When we accept Jesus as our Savior, a beautiful thing happens with our identity, we are a new creation in Him. The change in identity is real but it’s not often realized. The change God desires for us is to be like Jesus. To make what is now real about us, that we are new creations in Jesus, realized in our daily lives. The question is, how do we do this?
In his book “Spirit of the Disciplines,” Dallas Willard writes about a “Golden Triangle” of transformation. Based on that, Pastor Dale proposed a theory of how people transform that will be used as a guide throughout the series. It is the Triangle of Transformation with Truth, Practices, and Community at the points and the Holy Spirit at the center.
In this week’s message, Pastor Dale unpacked how the Triangle of Transformation will be used as a guide and provided an overview of each area highlighted in the triangle. Our Father in Heaven has invited us to be transformed. Why? So that the repetitive lies we have believed can be opposed and to realize our real identities in Him.
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