The process of transformational healing is the journey of moving toward full incarnation, the process of being conformed in the image of Christ. The Scriptures tell us that this is the goal of our growth.
Galations 4:19 - "My dear children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you."
Colossians 1:28 - "We proclaim Him, counseling and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone perfect in Christ."
Ephesians 4:11-13 - "Until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining the full measure of perfection found in Christ."
Colossians 2:9 - "For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, and you have this fullness in Christ."
Ephesians 4:24 - "And to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness."
Colossians 3:10 - "And have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator."
Romans 13:1 - "Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of your sinful nature."
Colossians 3:1-4 - "Since you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above...Set your minds on things above...For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is your life, appears then you also will appear with Him in glory."
Philippians 2:12 - "For it is God who works in you to will and to act according to His good purpose."
Galatians 2:20 - "I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me."
II Corinthians 13:5 - "Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do you not realize that Christ Jesus is in you..."
Ephesians 3:19 - "That you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God."
Perhaps the real question is: Do I live for Christ or do I allow Christ to live in and through me? (Philippians 2:12)
II Corinthians 4:10-11 - "We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus' sake. so that His life may be revealed in our mortal body."
Romans 8:29 - "For those God foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of His Son..."
Children have the same life as their Father.
II Peter 1:4 - "You may participate in the divine nature..."
I John 4:4 - "Because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world."
I John 4:13 - "We know that we live in Him and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit."
I John 4:16-17 - "God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. Love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment, because in this world we are like Him."
I John 5:11-12 - "God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life."
To be like Christ means that we live by the power of the Spirit and the Spirit produces in us and through us the fruit of the Spirit and the lifestyle pictured Biblically for elders and deacons.
=The "fruit of the Spirit" (Galatians 5:22) pictures the nature of Christ, which the Holy Spirit is producing in us.
=The qualities of an elder and deacon (I Timothy 3:1-3; Titus 1:6-9) picture the life style that Christians live by the power of the Holy spirit. This lifestyle is the out working of the life of Christ in the believer.
Jesus pictured the character and nature of God when He came to this earth in the flesh. He put flesh and blood reality to God's nature. He showed us by His life what God was like. (Colossians 1:15 - "He is the image of the invisible God..." John 14:19 - "Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father.")
Could it be that we are to do the same as the "body of Christ"?
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