Becoming Whole Sermon Outline Week 1

Outline 2: 5 Truths about Transformation

INTRO - Made for the open road, but stuck in traffic

Series Intro: This series is about experiencing...

freedom, joy, fulfillment, satisfaction

It’s about revealing and removing those obstacles in our life and getting out on the open road

It’s about becoming whole again in a broken world

Biblically this process is called Transformation.

PRAY

5 Truths about Transformation

Transformation is a Complete Change.

Transformation is a process

Transformation begins by removing the veil

Outline 1

Intro — made for the open road

2 Cor 3:18 — Transformation

Metamorphosis — utter change — Catepillar to butterfly

The process of Transformation

Final Goal is conformity to image of Christ (Romans 8:29)

Process over time — from glory to glory.

Step 1 - The Veil is removed — Salvation first step

Step 2 - beholding Christ —

To behold is to see it, to study it, to hold it close

Christ — person and work of Christ.

What he has done for us

What he is doing for us

Problem: obstacles in our way

removing obstacles — spiritual warfare

to see Christ as he is and to be transformed to be like him.

Repenting, Healing, Appropriating Grace

It is done by the Spirit of God

The Spirit is working in us