Quotes about Transformation

The spiritual disciplines are wisdom, not righteousness. But they are wise practices that train and transform our hearts.

Separated Peter from the vile and suicidal Judas was that he, Peter, had lived long enough to find his offense transformed—through no merit of his own—by the loving acceptance of Jesus. The humiliated Peter was, in the same moment, the forgiven Peter.

Salvation is not the stopping point; it is the starting point.

The relevance of the church is not found in its capitulation to culture but in its transformation of culture.

The acceptance of the gift of freedom transforms our perception of our social and political existence.

The reason God responds to persistence is because prayer is changing the one who prays. As we pray, God is making us spiritually fit to receive what He is already willing to do. Prayer changes us into the people who can participate in the greater work of God without being spoiled by it through pride or becoming discouraged by the increased weight of greater fruitfulness.

Small groups are the place to push past Bible knowledge and on to life application so that we can see people's lives transform more and more into the image of Christ.

You don't get to a better place with God until you recognize that where you are is not as good.

God's love is not a pampering love. God's love is a perfecting love. God does not get up every day trying to figure how He can plant a bigger smile on your face. God is in the process of growing us and changing us. His love is a transforming love.

God brings us low, even to the point of death, in order to bring us up again.

For life change to happen, we must commit to full cooperation with God's desire to transform us.

Our job is to get people to Jesus Christ and to get them back to Him in profound, life-altering ways every week.