THE TRANSFORMING POWER OF THE GOSPEL Mark & Mary Chase

Romans 1:16-17 16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. 17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”

Romans 8:29 29 For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

Romans 12:2 2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Genesis 5:1-3 1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God. 2 Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created. 3 When Adam had lived 130 years, he fathered a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.

2 Corinthians 3:18 18 And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.

Philippians 1:6 6 And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.

Philippians 2:12-13 12 Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, 13 for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

“God has called upon us to become new people in Christ…This new life [in Christ] is not destined merely to repose as a secret in the hidden depths of our souls; rather it should work out in the transformation of our entire personality.” –Transformation in Christ by Dietrich Von Hildebrand

“All true Christian life…must begin with a deep yearning to become a new person in Christ and an inner readiness to ‘put off the old’ – a readiness to become something fundamentally [and radically] different.” –Transformation in Christ by Dietrich Von Hildebrand

“…my [our] soul(s) should become malleable, like wax in God’s hands, so that I (we) may become what He wants me (us) to become, namely, transformed into the likeness of Christ.” –Alice Von Hildebrand, Transformation in Christ Introduction

“Rare are those whose readiness to change is total, absolute, unconditional, & who let the Divine Master decide how deeply the marble is to be chiseled.” –Alice Von Hildebrand, Transformation in Christ Introduction