In part three of “Healthy Things Grow,” titled “Healthy Thinking,” Senior Pastor Travis Tullis explains from Romans 12:1–2, 2 Corinthians 10:5, and Proverbs 23:7, that we cannot live a transformed life with a conformed mind. True spiritual transformation begins when we allow God to renew our thinking and align our minds with His Word.

Healthy thinking starts with recognizing what has been programmed into our minds and planted within our hearts. Our experiences, surroundings, relationships, culture, and circumstances can program patterns of thinking that may not agree with God’s truth. Because as a person thinks in the heart, so is that person (Proverbs 23:7), we must examine what has been shaping our thoughts.

Once we recognize thinking that contradicts God’s Word, we must allow the Holy Spirit to deprogram us from unhealthy mindsets, negative thought patterns, and worldly perspectives. As 2 Corinthians 10:5 teaches, we take every thought captive and make it obedient to Christ. Like Jesus in the wilderness, when confronted with temptation and deception, our response must be: “It is written.”

Then, through prayer, reading and applying God’s Word, worship, and Christian fellowship, we allow God to reprogram our minds with biblical truth. Romans 12:2 reminds us that transformation comes through the renewing of our minds. As God changes how we think, our private formation becomes visible through our public living.

Therefore, healthy thinking requires us to recognize what has programmed us, allow God to deprogram what does not belong, and continually reprogram our minds with His truth. The result of healthy thinking is transformed into fruitful living.

Thank you, Senior Pastor Tullis, for leading us forward and higher together and reminding us that we are called to be fruitful image bearers, producing lasting fruit in God’s Kingdom community through pure hearts, healthy spiritual relationships, and renewed minds.