The document discusses how people change through knowing God. It cites passages from the Bible that say we should not boast in our own abilities but in knowing God, who practices love, justice and righteousness. Another passage says God grants us everything for life and godliness through Jesus, so that we can become like God by escaping sin. We are called to grow in virtues like faith, knowledge, self-control and love. If we have these qualities and they increase, it keeps us from being unfruitful in knowing Jesus. The document suggests people leave trails of broken relationships, impersonal faith, struggles with material things and lack of growth, but life should involve constant work, growth, confession and repentance.

2. “It’s not all about me.” It’s all about the One
who is remaking us – each one and all
together – into His image, and thus into a
community that practices lovingkindness,
justice, and righteousness in the earth. “In
these things I delight.”
--David Powlison

3. Thus says the Lord: "Let not the wise man
boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man
boast in his might, let not the rich man boast
in his riches, but let him who boasts boast in
this, that he understands and knows me, that
I am the LORD who practices steadfast love,
justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in
these things I delight, declares the Lord.“
Jeremiah 9:23-24 (ESV)

4. How Do People Change?
His divine power has granted to us all things
that pertain to life and godliness, through the
knowledge of him who called us to his own
glory and excellence, by which he has granted
to us his precious and very great promises, so
that through them you may become partakers
of the divine nature, having escaped from the
corruption that is in the world because of
sinful desire.

5. How Do People Change?
For this very reason, make every effort to
supplement your faith with virtue, and
virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with
self-control, and self-control with
steadfastness, and steadfastness with
godliness, and godliness with brotherly
affection, and brotherly affection with love.

6. How Do People Change?
For if these qualities are yours and are
increasing, they keep you from being
ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of
our Lord Jesus Christ. For whoever lacks these
qualities is so nearsighted that he is blind,
having forgotten that he was cleansed from
his former sins.
2 Peter 1:3-9 (ESV)

7. Our lives should reflect:
• Peaceful, loving relationships,
• A sweet, natural, day-to-day worship
of the Lord,
• A wholesome and balanced
relationship to material things,
• And ongoing spiritual growth.

8. Instead, many leave a trail of:
• Broken relationships,
• A knowledgeable but impersonal walk
with God,
• A struggle with material things,
• And a definite lack of personal growth.

9. 3 kinds of blindness:
• IDENTITY
• PROVISION
• PROCESS

10. Life NOW should be marked by:
• CONSTANT work,
• CONSTANT growth,
• CONSTANT confession,
• CONSTANT repentance