We Are Made to Transform!

Redemption is all about transformation.

When we accept Jesus as our personal Savior, we are saved from the eternal punishment we deserve, but we're also save for something else.

We are saved to be transformed into the likeness of Christ....not just to look good, but to BE GOODNESS to a hurting world.

God's intent for us to be transformed from our old yucky self into the image of Christ is laid out in 2 Corinthians 5:16-20:

So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God. (NIV)

You and I are made for this!