TRANSFORMING LIVES, IMPACTING COMMUNITIES (2016-2020)
Our Vision To lead the church towards intentional disciplemaking cell church that will transform lives and impact close ones, community, and countries for the glory of God
7 THRUSTS
Romans 12:2 (NKJV) And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. Romans 12:2 (NLT) Don t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.
WILL OF GOD * Sovereign * Scriptural * Specific
Why Do We Struggle to Live the Will of God? Spiritual Warfare - flesh vs spirit 2 Corinthians 10:3-5 (NIV) For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
1. BE NOT CONFORMED TO THE WORLD
The Greek word for Conformed (suschematizo, soos-khay-mat-id'-zo) implies that which is "transitory, changeable, unstable" (Vine's) * at the most we can only be an imitation, a cheap copy Chameleon changes colour to match surrounding
BE NOT CONFORMED TO THE WORLD (SPIRIT OF THE AGE) Ephesians 2:1-3 (NKJV) And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.
Colossians 1:13 (NKJV) He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love,
2. BE RENEWED OF YOUR MIND
The Problem with Our Minds Ephesians 4:22-23 (NKJV) that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, 2 Corinthians 4:4 (NKJV) whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them.
Our attitudes and behavior is but a reflection of what goes into our minds! Colossians 3:1-2 (NKJV) If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. Romans 8:5 (NKJV) For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.
3. BE TRANSFORMED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT
The Greek word for Transformation is metamorphoo (met-am-or-fo'-o) Lit., "to change into another form" (Vine's) vs Chrysalis pupa to butterfly Chameleon changes colour to match surrounding
The Transformation Is Not Just External 2 Corinthians 3:6 (NIV) He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. Titus 3:4-5 (NKJV) But when the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,
The Work of the Holy Spirit (To Become Like Christ) 2 Corinthians 3:18 (NKJV) But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.
Our Response
1 Peter 1:13-14 (NIV) Therefore, with minds that are alert and fully sober, set your hope on the grace to be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed at his coming. As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance. Ephesians 4:17-18 (NKJV) This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind, having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart;
Take It Home Passion for the Glory of Christ Pursuit of the Word of Christ Proclamation of the Gospel of Christ