Spiritual Transformation ………………………………………..
Spiritual transformation requires repentance and total trust in God to dramatically change what we could never change ourselves. Being in every worship service or taking every church class offered won’t make it happen. Participating in a multitude of ministries won’t bring it about. Fasting won’t cinch it.
Realizing that spiritual transformation isn’t something you can do is a hard pill for us to swallow as egotistical humans—and perhaps even more so as church leaders.
We hate to admit we can’t do something. It’s easy for us to try to take spiritual transformation into our own hands—without even realizing that’s what we’re doing. We’re compelled by the Christian and secular culture and propelled by personality quirks to get busy doing the things we perceive Christians are supposed to be doing. We have places to go, spiritual activities to do, people to see. But there exists a discouraging disparity between our efforts and the results: and, to top it off, we’re exhausted. We’re working at ministry