8 Steps on the Path of a Transformed Life

If you want to live a changed life, be like-minded with your brothers and sisters in Christ.

If you want to live a changed life, seek unity in the body of Christ.

If you want to live a changed life, stop being selfish and conceited.

If you want to live a changed life, it comes through humility.

If you want to live a changed life, it comes through putting others above yourself.

If you want to live a changed life, you have to empty yourself of yourself.

If you want to live a changed life, start seeing yourself as a servant rather than master.

If you want to live a changed life, it comes through obedience to God.

Here is the proof that all of this is true…

“Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.

In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:

Who, being in very nature[a] God,
did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;

rather, he made himself nothing
by taking the very nature[b] of a servant,
being made in human likeness.

And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
by becoming obedient to death—
even death on a cross!

Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
and gave him the name that is above every name,

that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,

and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.

Philippians 2:1-11