Presentation given in Wyoming for the Seventh-day Adventist Church Elders Training.

2. Leading from the Inside Out

3. LEADERSHIP

5. CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP

7. Don’t be Conformed to This Time

8. Be Transformed by the Renewing Of Your Mind

9. Prove / Know The Will of God

11. Information or Transformation?

12. Your Word is a Lamp Unto My Feet and A Light Unto my Path

13. I have hidden your word in my heart so I won’t sin against you.

14. The Sword of the Spirit

15. All Scripture is inspired by God and is good for Doctrine Reproof Correction Instruction in Righteousness That the man (and woman) of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

16. The whole Bible is a revelation of the glory of God in Christ. Received, believed, obeyed, it is the great instrumentality in the transformation of character. It is the grand stimulus, the constraining force, that quickens the physical, mental, and spiritual powers, and directs the life into right channels. MH 458

17. By Beholding we Are Changed

18. But man cannot transform himself by the exercise of his will. He possesses no power by which this change can be effected. The leaven--something wholly from without--must be put into the meal before the desired change can be wrought in it. So the grace of God must be received by the sinner before he can be fitted for the kingdom of glory. All the culture and education which the world can give will fail of making a degraded child of sin a child of heaven. The renewing energy must come from God. The change can be made only by the Holy Spirit.

19. All who would be saved, high or low, rich or poor, must submit to the working of this power. As the leaven, when mingled with the meal, works from within outward, so it is by the renewing of the heart that the grace of God works to transform the life. No mere external change is sufficient to bring us into harmony with God. There are many who try to reform by correcting this or that bad habit, and they hope in this way to become Christians, but they are beginning in the wrong place. Our first work is with the heart. COL 96,97

20. The Heart of The Matter

21. Spiritual Transformation

22. Liven Up Your Bible Study

23. “Every human being, created in the image of God, is endowed with a power akin to that of the Creator,—individuality, power to think and to do…. It is the work of true education to develop this power; to train the youth to be thinkers, and not mere reflectors of other men's thought. Instead of confining their study to that which men have said or written, let students be directed to the sources of truth, to the vast fields opened for research in nature and revelation. Let them contemplate the great facts of duty and destiny, and the mind will expand and strengthen.” Ed. 17, 18.

24. Read a Different Translation / Version For Personal Study

25. Cyber Bible

26. Underlining

27. Journaling

28. Tools for Effective Transformational Bible Study

32. The truths of the Bible, received, will uplift mind and soul. If the word of God were appreciated as it should be, both young and old would possess an inward rectitude, a strength of principle, that would enable them to resist temptation. Let men teach and write the precious things of the Holy Scriptures. Let the thought, the aptitude, the keen exercise of brain power, be given to the study of the thoughts of God. Study not the philosophy of man's conjectures, but study the philosophy of Him who is truth. No other literature can compare with this in value. The mind that is earthly finds no pleasure in contemplating the word of God; but for the mind renewed by the Holy Spirit, divine beauty and celestial light shine from the sacred page. That which to the earthly mind was a desolate wilderness, to the spiritual mind becomes a land of living streams. MH 459,460

33. Commentaries

34. Ellen G White

36. Prayer is the Key to Understanding & Transformation

37. If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray, I will hear from heaven and will heal their land.

38. If any of you lack wisdom let him ask of God…

39. Prayer is the opening of the heart to God as to a friend. Not that it is necessary in order to make known to God what we are, but in order to enable us to receive Him. Prayer does not bring God down to us, but brings us up to Him.

40. Jesus Himself, while He dwelt among men, was often in prayer. Our Saviour identified Himself with our needs and weakness, in that He became a suppliant, a petitioner, seeking from His Father fresh supplies of strength, that He might come forth braced for duty and trial. He is our example in all things. Steps to Christ 93,94

41. Spiritual Secret Weapon: DailyWorship

44. Personal Retreat

45. Jesus Called His Disciples to Come away a While and Rest

47. Focus on Christ!

48. Our Mission: The Gospel to the World In This Generation

49. Finally there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to me on that Day, and not to me only but to all who have loved His appearing. II Timothy 4:8