Seven Steps to Living the Transformed Christian Life

Seven Steps to Living the Transformed Christian Life  
  1. Make it your goal to become more like Jesus. Then you will be the person that God created you to be. 
  1. Become more aware of the guiding presence of the Holy Spirit in your life.  
  1. Allow God to change the focus of your affections.  
  1. Focus more on training than trying (from The Life You’ve Always Wanted by John Ortberg). 
  1. Pay more attention to the small daily victories than the defeats when you slip into old patterns or sin. 
  1. When you do fall in to old patterns, repent, ask for God’s help, and move ahead.  
  1. Take inventory at regular intervals so that you can see how far you have come in living this transformed life. 

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