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and helps to grow into the people God would have us to be. The process is not complete without transformation.
“Robert A. Evan wrote that “transformation calls for nothing less than a metanoia or conversion that encompasses the whole person and society”. (Page 70, Matthaei) It cannot affect just you, the transformation must start with you but it also must reach out to the world around us. The conversion should affect all of creation. In this type of transformation lives are radically changed. This however cannot be an inner change only it must reach out and affect other people and the world as a whole.
Transformation comes as God’s spirit works through us by the grace of God. Change us, creates in us a new man a regenerated man. “James

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