Sunday 10th March

Lawrence Kirby shared a message titled, 
'Let God Transform You'

Romans 1:16
'For I am not ashamed of this Good News about Christ. It is the power of God at work, saving everyone who believes—the Jew first and also the Gentile.'

The Elders prayed and sought God for direction for KIC toward the end of 2023 and felt called that we need to be going after transformation, not just transaction. 

The Good News must always lead to transformed lives because Scripture tells us that the Gospel is the power of God! 

We can ask ourselves, are we different people than we were 5 years ago, a week ago etc. The power of the Gospel of Jesus draws us into transformation. If we’re not changing, are we truly letting the good news transform us?

We have all of God, but we haven’t experienced all of Him yet!

"I’m no longer a sinner, I’m a saint" This is transactional... Transformation is when we actually live as a saint.

The power of the good news is in transformed lives.

Saul had a transformational experience. Through the power of the message of Jesus, he went from being a persecutor of Christians, to becoming Apostle Paul, an advocate for the Kingdom and wrote a huge amount of our Scriptures.

Romans 12:1-2 NLT
'And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all he has done for you. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice—the kind he will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship him. 

Don’t copy the behaviour 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.'

You and I can work really hard at transforming our own lives, but only God can change something that's completely and utterly broken and cause it to be something beautiful. He wants to do this in our lives! Even if we don't see ourselves as broken - we are not the full representation of Jesus YET! There is more available to us in the power of the Gospel. 

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