While there is only one road to God, truth, and salvation, there are many pathways along that road. These spiritual pathways are the activities we do that puts us in a place where the Holy Spirit can change us. In this final message in the Inner Change series, Pastor Derek discusses ten common spiritual pathways.
The doctrine of the Trinity is a gift from the historic church to the contemporary church. This doctrine describes God as a holy, loving community. The Holy Spirit, as a member of the Trinity, is at work changing Christians from the inside out in the context of a loving, holy community of another kind, the local church. In this message Pastor Derek describes how the Spirit does his work of inner change as Christians fulfill the “one another” commands.
Inner change is a part of God’s salvation project. God has saved us not merely to take us to heaven when we die, but he has saved us in order to restore us to our original created design. The restoration process of inner change is the work of the Holy Spirit. We do not change ourselves, but we are being transformed by the Spirit.
With the growing popularity of Jesus in pop culture, it is important for the Church to rightly understand who Jesus is. The Jesus we worship is truly God and truly man and he is the model of our transformation. The Holy Spirit is changing us into the image of Jesus in his humanity, giving us the mind of Jesus, the heart of Jesus, and the attitude of Jesus so that we ultimately act like Jesus.
The process of inner change is not another self-help or self-improvement program. According to Pastor Derek, the Holy Spirit is changing us to look more like Jesus for the Father’s Joy. The goal is not necessarily to make ourselves more happy, but to make God the Father happy
In the introduction to a new series, Pastor Derek discusses the vision for spiritual transformation or inner change. God has rescued us not merely to take us to heaven when we die, but to change us into different a different kind of person, the kind of person that looks like Jesus, thinks like Jesus, and loves like Jesus. The process of spiritual transformation is the work of the Spirit to change us into the image of Jesus for the joy of God the Father. He changes us in the context of Christian community, as we walk along spiritual pathways.
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