How Does God Change Us? “Real Change for Real Sinners” (Union)

by Dane C. Ortlund

Publisher:

Crossway

, 2021

Overview

Experience Real Change through Union with Christ.

Christians are instructed to “grow in the grace and knowledge” of Jesus. For some people, growing is a matter of living out a moral code. Others focus more on gaining knowledge. And still others seek a tangible experience of worship. But what if experiencing true change transcends all of these?

In How Does God Change Us?, pastor Dane Ortlund presents a way for sinners to experience real and penetrating change by bringing what they say and do in line with what they are: united with Christ. As readers recognize the depths of their own sinfulness, they become even more aware of their need for grace, and the wonder of what it means to be one with Christ. Ortlund invites anyone who is tired and weary from consistent sin patterns to lean into Jesus, for only then can God change them from the inside out.

Key Features

• Presents a way for sinners to experience real and penetrating change
• Invites anyone who is tired and weary from consistent sin patterns to lean into Jesus
• Explores the connection between what Christians say and do with what they are

Contents

• Introduction
• Jesus
• Despair
• Union
• Embrace
• Acquittal
• Honesty
• Pain
• Breathing
• Supernaturalized
• Conclusion

Top Highlights

“You will not change until you get straight who Jesus is, particularly with regard to his surprising tenderness” (Page 23)

“Your growth in Christ will go no further than your settledness, way down deep in your heart, that God loves you” (Page 41)

“The Christian life—our growth in Christ—is nothing other than the lifelong deconstruction of what we naturally think and assume and the reconstruction of truth through the Bible.” (Page 72)

“Recognize and believe way down deep in your heart that without the empowering Spirit all your ministry and efforts and evangelizing and attempts to kill sin will be in vain.” (Page 83)

“The first thing I want to make clear here, early in this book, is that the real Jesus is gentle and lowly in heart” (Page 22)

Product Details

• Title: How Does God Change Us?
• Author: Dane C. Ortlund
• Series: Union
• Publisher: Crossway
• Print Publication Date: 2021
• Logos Release Date: 2021
• Pages: 92
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subjects: Change (Psychology) › Religious aspects--Christianity; Habit breaking › Religious aspects--Christianity; Sin › Christianity
• ISBNs: 9781433574030, 9781433574054, 9781433574047, 9781433574061, 1433574039, 1433574055, 1433574047, 1433574063
• Resource ID: LLS:HWDSGDSNCNCSDTN
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T00:40:34Z

About Dane C. Ortlund

Dane C. Ortlund (PhD, Wheaton College) is senior vice president for Bible publishing at Crossway. He serves as an editor for the Knowing the Bible series and the Short Studies in Biblical Theology series, and is the author of several of books, including Edwards on the Christian Life and Mark: A 12-Week Study.