The Life Transformed

How can you change the world?

By allowing God to first change us. Is that an oversimplification?

Brad Stine said, (in response to the 10 Commandments Statue Debate/Debacle in my home state of AL), "We cannot change the world by talking about Jesus. We can only change the world if we BE Jesus."

While I do believe Christian involvement in politics is important, it is only secondary to Christians dedicated to allowing the transformation of Christ to occur in him or herself.

I believe we need to ask, "Do we simply wish to be heard or do we want to be agents of real change?"

All too often we rail about moral/political issues that seem important, but are not areas in which we struggle. We'll fuss loudly about Homosexuality, Gay Marriage, Abortion, and the like. Which are all viable moral and social concerns. However, most of us won't have an abortion, propose to a same sex partner, or even be involved in a homosexual relationship.

I wonder what powerful social and spiritual mountains would be moved if each of us focused most of that outward energy on listening to God about ourselves... seeking the revelation of his heart through ours.

I will use for example the issue of prayer in school. This has been a social soapbox for us Christian folks for years. I know many(!) who will rally around this topic while having a spotty (at best) track record of praying in their homes with their spouse and children.


We will use it as voting criteria. We will attend rallies and talk about it passionately at church and the coffeehouse. We will question someone's salvation if they don't agree. Yet we fail so miserably to engage ourselves and our families in that very activity in the places it is not only permissible but imperative.
(does the word hypocrite apply here?)

I am convinced that most, if not all, significant change that truly affects society is that which is first sealed in the heart of the individual. Legislating social or moral standards does not enact that transformation. I believe our world will respond only to the life transformed. Our world will not conform to our political, legal, and moral standards simply because we have them written down in a Bible, creed, or book of law. Our world will respond best to us living in the transformational process of Christ.