Quotes about Transformation

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.

If spiritual formation is the purpose of the church, then personal transformation should intentionally be the purpose of the small group ministry. Bible study is great. Fellowship is wonderful. Evangelism is essential. But changing and growing to be more like Christ should be the purpose of the small group ministry.

If God is not changing you, you have to honestly ask, "Have I ever really converted?" To put it another way, "If your faith isn't changing you, it hasn't saved you." The people who really have the new birth—the people who really have that conversion experience—are changing.

A real encounter with the living God changes everything. First, it magnifies the Lord, and then it puts me and my ego and my sin and my burdens all in their rightful place.

We are less interested in the number of disciples and more interested in the quality of discipleship.

Because in prayer I expand my sense of how I have offended God. And I thereby lower my sense of how much others have offended me. Prayer is changing me.

I've never seen the Holy Spirit, but I've seen His powerful wind blowing through people's lives.

To know God as he is, is to love him as he is and to want to be like him.

Contrast, as a result of that study, blessed and empowered by the Holy Spirit, we will begin to take on something of the glorious luster of the Lord Jesus Christ and will become increasingly like him.

Mary was still thinking in terms of a dead body when Jesus confronted her with His living presence.