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The Christ Community Church Podcast features weekly teaching from Christ Community Church in Columbus, Georgia, where our mission is to awaken ordinary people to extraordinary life in Christ-centered community. CCC is part of the Free Methodist Church and shares that denomination’s vision of bringing wholeness to the world through healthy biblical communities of holy people multiplying disciples, leaders, groups and churches.

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Cultivating the Soil: How Are We Transformed?

March 30, 2026 • Christ Community Church

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"If we are not transformed by the power of the next stage, the inescapable default is that we continue to be conformed to this one."

This powerful exploration of Romans 12:1-2 challenges us to reconsider our expectations about spiritual transformation. Many of us have absorbed a version of the gospel that emphasizes our sinfulness so heavily that we don't actually expect real change until heaven. We've internalized messages that keep us stuck, whether from difficult childhoods, repeated struggles with sin, or just the relentless negativity of our cultural moment. But here's the revolutionary truth: God's expectation is that we experience next-age transformation right now, in this present age.