Old Way: “Treat … younger women as sister, with absolute purity”
New Way: “…strength to comprehend with all the saint what is the breadth and length and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge”
Difference: metanoia!
Understands that he a citizen of the kingdom of heaven
Jesus is Lord of the kingdom
Jesus delivered him into the kingdom through his blood
His sins placed him in Satan’s domain
Live gratefully for Jesus rather than self
Should anticipates the King’s glorious return
Want no one to perish
Should no fear man
Only agenda is God’s agenda
Apply spiritual disciplines with dramatically different results
How would Jesus think?
Once you see the world through God’s eyes your mind and heart become so transformed that you “automatically” respond to every situation differently
Questions
What influences have shaped your worldview?
How has the world tried to squeeze your mind into its mold?
How can you resist – even reverse – this persistent pressure from the world?
Why should you “gird the loins of your mind”?
When and how did Saul/Paul repent?
What is the difference between a fleshly mind and a spiritual mind?
At a popular level, what is the difference between WWJD and WWJT?
Why are spiritual disciplines more effective after one has experienced the paradigm shift of metanoia?