Real Change: Conversion
Overview
This study explores what God does when he saves someone, answering questions such as: What is the change we need? How does conversion happen? What are the fruits of salvation? Participants will gain a biblical understanding of conversion and the implications both for themselves and for the church.
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- Explores what God does when he saves someone
- Presents a biblical understanding of conversion
- Discusses the implications both for the readers and for the church
- Do We Need to Change?
- Is Change Possible?
- What Is the Change We Need?
- How Does This Change Happen?
- What Are the Fruits of This Change? (Part 1)
- What Are the Fruits of This Change? (Part 2)
- Conversion and the Church
Top Highlights
“When a church misunderstands the Bible’s teaching on conversion, it may well become filled with people who made sincere pronouncements at one point in their lives but who have not experienced the radical change the Bible presents as conversion.” (Page 13)
“Scripture teaches that we must have our hearts replaced, our minds transformed, and our spirits given life. We can’t do any of this. The change every human needs is so radical, so much at our very root, that only God can do it. He created us the first time. So he must make us new creations. He was responsible for our natural birth. So he must give us a new birth. We need God to convert us.” (Page 13)
“As Jesus commanded at the beginning of his ministry, ‘Repent and believe the good news!’ (Mark 1:15 niv). In the simplest terms, conversion equals repentance and faith.” (Pages 11–12)
“However, it will evidence itself in its fruit. Do lives give evidence of change—putting off the old and putting on the new? Are members interested in waging war against their sin, even if they continue to stumble? Do they show a new interest in enjoying fellowship with Christians and perhaps new motives in spending time with non-Christians? Are they beginning to respond to trials and challenges differently from how they did as non-Christians?” (Page 13)
“they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking” (Pages 15–16)
- Title: Real Change: Conversion
- Author: Bobby Jamieson
- Series: 9Marks Healthy Church Study Guides
- Publisher: Crossway
- Print Publication Date: 2012
- Logos Release Date: 2013
- Pages: 64
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Evangelistic work; Witness bearing (Christianity)
- Resource ID: LLS:REALCHANGE
- Resource Type: text.monograph.study-guide
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-12-08T17:22:18Z
