renovating the heart

I am updating the work I did in 2005 adapting Dallas Willard's Renovation of the Heart as a springboard for personal discipleship renewal and growth. Going through these daily readings will challenge us to move from the inside out. Join in the fun!

Starting at the beginning, we realize we are designed to be in relationship with Jesus. The Christian life is not a set of rules and regulations. The Bible is not a rule book but a description of this way of life. We do not have a list of laws that we follow to become worthy of attention from God. To grow in faith, we live the life we are designed to live and we are transformed from the inside out.

This is the key. From the inside out. We don’t get involved in a flurry of activities that make us acceptable to receive God’s love. We receive God’s love and are open to being changed from the inside out. We don’t do good things to please God. We become the kind of persons who can do good things naturally because we have been transformed. It is out of the “becoming” that the “doing” follows.