Are you in the throes of Transformation?

[micah719]

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Are you in the throes of Transformation?

Herescope was requested to prepare a "thumbnail sketch" -- an overview -- of what constitutes "transformation." Below is an outline summary which many will find helpful.

“Transformation” is the end-goal of a process that moves from TRADITION through TRANSITION to TRANSFORMATION. This is sometimes called a “Paradigm Shift,” which means that Transformation shifts one’s worldview (paradigm) from the old to a new. This is a dialectically unfolding PROCESS in which the THESIS is continually challenged by ANTITHESIS, evolving into ever-unfolding SYNTHESES. Transformation is engineered, orchestrated and/or manipulated. Transformation involves changing over a person’s values, opinions, beliefs, attitudes, and even their behaviors to that of the new paradigm/worldview.

How to tell if it is “Transformation” --

Characteristics of TRADITION:
1. Education (teaching) is didactic
2. Cognitive
3. Right and Wrong
4. Focus on “what is”
5. “I know” statements
6. Facts, TRUTH
7. Respond to change by standing on THESIS

Characteristics of TRANSITION:
1. Education is facilitation
2. Affective (feelings), psychological
3. Must “determine” right and wrong (up for grabs)
4. Experience (dialogue)
5. “I think” or “I feel” subjective statements
6. OPINIONS
7. Respond to change by adapting to new SYNTHESIS

Characteristics of TRANSFORMATION:
1. Education is modeling, spiritual formation, mentoring
2. Esoteric (mystical)
3. No absolutes
4. Common ground, coevolution, collective unconscious
5. Intuitive, “I sense,” imagery, imagination
6. ANTITHESIS supplants THESIS
7. Continual, perpetual change

How to spot the PROCESS of “Transformation.” Look for:

A. New Language:
1. Newly coined words, terms, phrases, slogans
2. Old words given new meanings
3. Old definitions discarded
4. Intentional deception, misleading statements, half-truths, ambiguity

B. New Worldview/Paradigm
1. A new way of seeing or interpreting reality—events, circumstances, history, causes and effects, etc.
2. Creating a new reality using envisioning activities
3. Revisionist history: altering the facts, distorting prior events to fit new paradigm
4. Creating a new reality through psycho-social change mechanisms

C. New Structure
1. New authority structure, system of governance, new forms of accountability
2. New physical structure
3. New forms, formulas, formats, formations
4. New liturgies not based on doctrine or Scripture

D. New Mission/Vision
1. Subjective, constantly changing, relative
2. Strategic
3. Not tied to Biblical absolute Truth or Word of God
4. Subject to continual urgency, crisis, acceleration, etc.

E. New Values
1. Subjective, relational, situational, abstract
2. Irrational, illogical, irreverent, irrelevant
3. Tolerance for everything but absolute Truth
4. “The end justifies the means”

F. New Methods
1. Bait and switch, marketing, manipulation, machinations
2. Statistics, census-taking, databanking, assessing, monitoring
3. Orchestrated consensus, common ground, deceptions
4. Peer-driven, compulsive, coercive

G. New Doctrines
1. Man-oriented, culturally relative, contextualized, programmed
2. Anything that erodes the sovereignty of God
3. Utopian-sounding
4. Authoritarian in implementation
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See also:
Brainwashing and how to resist it

and:
Baloney Detector: Your Guide to Clear Thinking

[king'sbloomingrose]

I don't know if it's Biblical or not...I know God is transforming each and every one of us right now. Romans 12:2 And my pastor says its bad to live in tradition because then you do everything the same old way and it gets stuck as a routine habit and loses meaning for the believer. (I mean things like having communion every 2 months because it's church tradition etc.) Galatians 1:14 Some of the stuff you said, I'd never heard of before. I guess I'm just confused

[LivnForChrist]

This is not speaking of biblical transformation by the
renewing of your mind but of efforts of some today to change the worldview
of many Christians from traditional Christianity to Post-Modernism.
It's basically speaking of apostasy. I think that the information below should
help you...


The 'Transformative' Worldview

"Activist PPMs [post-modern ministries, ed.] are attempting to wean evangelicals from their addiction to the modern era with its
dogmatic truth claims by a process called 'transformation.' 'Transformational thinking' and 'managed change' have become the
machinery with which to re-tool the evangelical church. A whole industry of congregational consultant/coaches are teaching
congregations how to be 'transformed' (cross over) into the postmodern worldview in order to make the changes presumed
necessary to impact the 21st century. But how does one lead evangelicals, born and raised on objective and unalterable truth,
into postmodern thinking? How do change-agent coaches effect this transformation? They employ a version of belief and behavior*
modification using the dialectic (arriving at 'group-consensus') rather than the didactic (teaching of unchangeable truth claims).
"
(Dr. Orrel Steinkamp, “Cross Over To The Otherside,”
The Plumbline, Vol. 9, No. 2, Untitled



link

[mattfivefour]

Thanks for that clarification, Mary. I am sure a lot of people were confused by the OP.

[micah719]

Sorry folks, didn't mean to cause confusion. I thought the meaning was clearly explained in the original post. If it is new, perhaps it's high time to look into such things and be aware of how our minds are being tinkered with and how to resist this, which is why I added the other two links. It's part of being wise as serpents...not that we do such things, but that we are forewarned and not sitting pidgeons.

Romans 12:2
2 Do not be conformed to this world (this age), [fashioned after and adapted to its external, superficial customs], but be transformed (changed) by the [entire] renewal of your mind [by its new ideals and its new attitude], so that you may prove [for yourselves] what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God, even the thing which is good and acceptable and perfect [in His sight for you].

Ephesians 4:22-25
22 Strip yourselves of your former nature [put off and discard your old unrenewed self] which characterized your previous manner of life and becomes corrupt through lusts and desires that spring from delusion;
23 And be constantly renewed in the spirit of your mind [having a fresh mental and spiritual attitude],
24 And put on the new nature (the regenerate self) created in God's image, [Godlike] in true righteousness and holiness.
25 Therefore, rejecting all falsity and being done now with it, let everyone express the truth with his neighbor, for we are all parts of one body and members one of another.

Philippians 3:8-11
8 Yes, furthermore, I count everything as loss compared to the possession of the priceless privilege (the overwhelming preciousness, the surpassing worth, and supreme advantage) of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord and of progressively becoming more deeply and intimately acquainted with Him [of perceiving and recognizing and understanding Him more fully and clearly]. For His sake I have lost everything and consider it all to be mere rubbish (refuse, dregs), in order that I may win (gain) Christ (the Anointed One),
9 And that I may [actually] be found and known as in Him, not having any [self-achieved] righteousness that can be called my own, based on my obedience to the Law's demands (ritualistic uprightness and supposed right standing with God thus acquired), but possessing that [genuine righteousness] which comes through faith in Christ (the Anointed One), the [truly] right standing with God, which comes from God by [saving] faith.
10 [For my determined purpose is] that I may know Him [that I may progressively become more deeply and intimately acquainted with Him, perceiving and recognizing and understanding the wonders of His Person more strongly and more clearly], and that I may in that same way come to know the power outflowing from His resurrection [which it exerts over believers], and that I may so share His sufferings as to be continually transformed [in spirit into His likeness even] to His death, [in the hope]
11 That if possible I may attain to the [spiritual and moral] resurrection [that lifts me] out from among the dead [even while in the body].

[anath]

If it is a False Doctrine, it will ultimately glorify man. Sound Biblical Doctrine will ALWAYS glorify God. Believers are transforming to the will of God and are not conforming to the World.