General - Saturday, May 12, 2007 19:53 - 0 Comments

Gospel Transformission vs…

Our Church (Kaleo) has recently joined the historical and universal church by plunging into the great book of Acts. As we’ve looked week after week at the incredible vast release of energy which empowered the early church I purposely chose a word which, to me, seems to best describe what we’re attempting here in San Diego.

We’ve been using the word ‘transformission‘ quite regularly over these last few weeks. I thought I would take a couple of minutes and simply describe what we’re thinking.

1-Gospel transformation is different from moral reformation. It is absolutely possible, and even common, for newer and older Christians to assume that to believe the gospel means that you’ve become a moral/pious person. I’m certainly not suggesting that moral piety does not result from gospel transformation, but moral piety doesn’t need gospel transformation to occur, nor does it ensure that a deep heart transformation has taken place. Continue…