Christ is Our Hope for Change

Christianity's change process does not revolve around a system of redemption but around a person who redeems. The Bible calls us to focus on Christ our Redeemer--the Word of God made flesh--who gives us the pattern and power for change. Christ is our hope. He links the forgiveness of the past to the growth of the present to the hope of the future.

--Timothy S. Lane & Paul David Tripp, How People Change (Greensboro, NC: New Growth Press, 2006), 43.