We're doing a 3-week teaching series @ Arise entitled, "Transformed: from the inside out." Here is part 1.

1. Transformed
Part 1
Rev. Samuel Robles Jr., M.Div.
July 5, 2009

3. Transformers:
More than meets the eye

4. Group Questions
 What does “transformation” mean?
 What does it mean to be “transformed?”

5. Romans 12:1-2
So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your
everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work,
and walking-around life—and place it before God as an
offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing
you can do for him. Don't become so well-adjusted to your
culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix
your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out.
Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly
respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging
you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of
you, develops well-formed maturity in you.
- The Message

6. Why be “transformed?”
 Paul makes a call for transforming the mind to
enable one to test what is good.
 This transformation will change one’s ability
to measure reality differently than by the
measures of the world; the ability to
distinguish good and evil.
 It will give you the ability to discern the correct
responses in situations: what is good,
acceptable, and perfect.
 We are urged to develop an “intelligent faith.”

7. Being “transformed”
 In Romans 12:1, Paul begins his exhortation
with the mention of “worship.”
 Sacrifice is part of transformation.
 The effects of your sacrifice are life changing
(transforming).
 It’s a transformation from the inside out. It’s
“more than meets the eye.”
 Why be transformed? So ultimately, through
your life, God is praised!