God isn’t interested in making you a better person. He’s interested in making you a new person. In this episode we’re talking about the idea of gospel transformation—the idea that the gospel and God’s highest and best for humanity is that He wouldn’t just leave us where we are. But that He would come in and change us from the inside out.

Ezekiel 36:26 is the most poignant Scripture to begin this discussion. God is speaking and He says, “I will give you a new heart, and put a new spirit in you. And I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.”

Since the beginning of time it was always in the heart of God to be more than some sort of add-on that we have in our lives. God’s full intent for us, as humans, is to be fully new, to be fully transformed.