Christformation In You

Christformation is about the divine nature of Christ being successfully formed in you to the fullest, which is the Heavenly Father's predestined and eternal will for you. Christ is formed in your born-again spirit with the indispensable help of God, the Holy Spirit. Your soul-your mind-is only then transformed into the mind of Christ in proportion to Christformation that has already occurred in your born again spirit. The extent to which you obey Christ our Lord will determine how much you are sowing into your new being. As a result of your obedient sowing, you will finally reap a proportionate body to clothe the Christ-formed spirit and transformed soul upon Christ's second coming. Your imperishable, Christ-conformed body is being built at God's right hand now, according to your personal obedience to His word. Therefore, isn't it then important to obey God the Holy Spirit's leading for full Christformation in you? Would you want to be found partially unclothed or shamefully naked of Christ's divine nature before God the Heavenly Father? This book highlights what you need to know about Christformation in you. These questions below are answered with Bible references to guide you to more truths about this essential experience in every believer of Christ, in fulfillment of God's promise: - What is Christformation in you? - Why is Christformation in you necessary? - Where else is Christformation mentioned in the Bible? - How does Christformation occur in you? - Who will have Christformation? - Who is involved with your Christformation? - When does full Christformation happen in you?

Rewire Your Brain with Truth from Scripture Have you ever felt stuck in your Christian life? Have you wondered if the abundant life Jesus promised is really available for you right here and right now? If you answered yes to either of these questions, then this book is for you. This book will help you identify the spiritual growth barriers that are keeping you stuck as well as show you the way to experience more of the abundant life: a life characterized by more love, joy, peace, and hope than you ever dreamed possible before. Ken Baugh draws us into the inner workings of the brain and the heart, which inform how we process negative and traumatic experiences, but which also can be diverted from health and wholeness by such negative experiences. How we process hard things intellectually and spiritually recalibrates us toward either health and wholeness or bitterness and defeatism. Ken helps us rewire our brains by simmering in the Scriptures that remind us whom we belong to and what God has promised us. The end result is a resilient, robust faith prepared to weather every storm and keep in step with Jesus.

Many Christians seem to put their confidence in a system of religious worship and seriously commit themselves to this. This book intends to move the reader from dependence on religious formalism to a deeper intimacy with a personal God who daily walks with us, talks to us and diligently directs our life when it is committed to Him. Christ being formed in a Christian is not just a common thought of Bassey Essien, but it cut into his heart when he meditated on the word of Paul “until Christ is formed in you” (Gal 4:19). One thing is to hear the word of God and another thing is to love the word formed in you. Formation of Christ in you makes what is formed to be a part of you living and your lifestyle. When Christ is formed in you, you do not struggle to be Christ-like, you just find yourself being Christ like. We get into Christ formation mould by appropriating all the means of grace God has provided for us and hold ourselves into various Christian disciplines shown in the scriptures. When we by choice learn and implement all the known means of grace and Christian disciplines, we will step into a new dimension of freedom, success in every Christian endeavor and inner peace. Learn about the means of grace, Christian disciplines and how to step into the very presence of God on daily basis, basking in His love.

Perhaps of all the books in the New Testament, James most squarely focuses on results. His pull-no-punches approach to spiritual maturity, his preference for action over words, makes his text the perfect backdrop for a study of how to grow in our faith. Beloved author and teacher, Warren Wiersbe, leads you through this practical book with advice on how to overcome temptation, controlling the tongue, effective prayer, and how to practice what the Bible teaches. If you're going to make progress in these areas, you will need a growing faith and dependence on Christ because as James claims, "Every good and perfect gift is from above." Now with study questions and updated foreword by Ken Baugh, Be Mature makes the perfect guide through your study of James. Trust Warren Wiersbe's 40+ years of experience to instruct you on important truths from God's Word.

With the Quest for Christ. you'll move beyond outdated methods of discipleship and discover how postmodern young adults can be led to maturity in Christian faith. You'll uncover the mindset of this young adult generation and find out what approaches connect with their stage of life. And most importantly, you'll learn ways to help them on the journey of Christ-formation in their lives. You'll get the information you need to apply these winning ideas for discipling young adults. Use these principles to take your young adult ministry to an even more effective level. Wheather you're just getting started or are a seasoned veteran, you'll come away with a clear vision of where to take your ministry. Book jacket.

Jens Zimmermann locates Bonhoeffer within the Christian humanist tradition extending back to patristic theology. He begins by explaining Bonhoeffer's own use of the term humanism (and Christian humanism), and considering how his criticism of liberal Protestant theology prevents him from articulating his own theology rhetorically as a Christian humanism. He then provides an in-depth portrayal of Bonhoeffer's theological anthropology and establishes that Bonhoeffer's Christology and attendant anthropology closely resemble patristic teaching. The volume also considers Bonhoeffer's mature anthropology, focusing in particular on the Christian self. It introduces the hermeneutic quality of Bonhoeffer's theology as a further important feature of his Christian humanism. In contrast to secular and religious fundamentalisms, Bonhoeffer offers a hermeneutic understanding of truth as participation in the Christ event that makes interpretation central to human knowing. Having established the hermeneutical structure of his theology, and his personalist configuration of reality, Zimmermann outlines Bonhoeffer's ethics as 'Christformation'. Building on the hermeneutic theology and participatory ethics of the previous chapters, he then shows how a major part of Bonhoeffer's life and theology, namely his dedication to the Bible as God's word, is also consistent with his Christian humanism.

What does it mean to be human? The German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer thought deeply about this questions out of a desire to understand the importance of Christ and the incarnation for modern culture. His conviction that Christ died for a new humanity is at the core of his theological anthropology. This collection assembles a distinguished and international group of scholars to examine Bonhoeffer's understanding of human sociality. From the introduction of his dissertation, Sanctorum Communio, where he notes 'the social intention of all the basic Christian concepts', to his final writings in prison, where he describes Christian faith as being for others, the theme of human sociality runs throughout Bonhoeffer's works. This volume examines Bonhoeffer's rich resources for thinking about what it means to be human, to be the church, to be a disciple, and to be ethically responsible in our contemporary world. Being Human, Becoming Human is vital reading for Bonhoeffer scholars as well as for those invested in theological debates regarding the social nature of human beings.

This is a book about spiritual formation, the "grace-driven developmental process in which the soul grows in conformity to the image of Christ." The acid test of all spiritual formation is this: Are you becoming more like Jesus? Are the contours of your character being shaped by his image, formed in his likeness? This ongoing transformation is possible for you. You can become more and more like Jesus Christ. But there is only one way: through your increasing understanding and application of the gospel. That's what this book is about. Book jacket.