A Whole New You: The Miraculous Change God Has for Your Life

"A Whole New You" by Tony Evans is a highly readable title that challenges the reader to let God transform him or her to the likeness of Jesus Christ. Among the points covered include: 1. Transformation ultimately comes from allowing God to work and have His way in our lives as He sees fit. 2. Religious activity will not earn "brownie points" with God, especially since we can already have acceptance with Him through Jesus Christ. 3. Let God use trials in your life to transform you. 4. Use temptations as opportunities to draw closer to God for strength and wisdom instead of relying on yourself. 5. Reading God's Word consistently and daily can play a part in transforming you. A good challenge for the reader to rely on God instead of self-reliance to bring about true and lasting change. Recommended.

i really liked this book and the timely manner to which it came to my house. i have always been a fan of tony evans. in fact, he is my favorite Christian author.i would highly recommend this book to all who are looking for good insight in becoming more Christlike.

In A Whole New You, Dr. Evans has reiterated much that I have read in other transformation-according-to-God's-Word books, but he does state emphatically that his desire is for the reader to realize that "God is passionately devoted to one goal for each and every one of His children: Christlikeness." This should be the desire of each one of us who claims to have accepted Christ as Savior and Lord of our lives; Dr. Evans prepares a roadmap for readers that diligently pursues a Bible study in six chapters, from "God's Assignment for Us" to "The New You..It's A Process," with a chapter at the end, "A Guide to Study, Discussion, and Application," which is very easy to use individually. How often we want to be wholeheartedly conformed to the image of Christ in our walk and our talk, but fail miserably when we have not adhered to the truths of God's Word to get us there. Dr. Evans uses the example of deity DNA connection in his first chapter to relate this lack of priority on the part of Christians. "The Road to Transformation" brings out the Holy Spirit as the "Agent of Transformation," our helper in the changing process. In this chapter, Dr. Evans repeats the fact that many walked and talked with Jesus and still did not grasp the reality of His teachings, but that we have the Holy Spirit to be our Guide--"teaching us, convicting us, instructing us, empowering us...transforming us." "Transformed by the Word" gives us a clear understanding of the Bible as being the only instrument that can aid the Holy Spirit in doing His Work. We are in need of putting on the "listening" ears, being "quick to hear, slow to speak," thus in tune with what God is trying to communicate to us. "Transformed by Trials" gives a clear impression of taking on the the hardships in our lives as blessings and cause for praise to God for giving us a process of "being squeezed by trials to see how much spiritual reality has ever soaked in" before the sufferings had come. "Transformed by Temptation" brings out the fact that temptation comes from our own fleshly desires or from Satan himself, but never from God, although He might allow it to happen, since "absolutely nothing comes into the life of the believer without God's approval." Being tempted is not the sin, but giving in to the temptation produces sin. The final chapter takes the reader through the process of growth into a spiritually mature believer who is ready to be transformed to the image of Christ. This can only be achieved by having "a personal relationship with our heavenly Father through Jesus Christ, not adherence to a set of rules." It is a beginning to ending progression story, much the same as our infancy to silver-haired status--stages of development that lead us to maturity, both physically and spiritually. [...].

This book is a modern-day C.S. Lewis Problem of Pain and Mere Christianity rolled into one. As a Christian, do you experience all of the blessings of God that you want? Are you free of the sin that has so easily pulled you down in the past? Can you feel joy in the midst of problems? Are you experiencing the abundant life that Jesus promised? Are you willing to put up with painful situations if that is where you're supposed to be? If you answered NO to any or all of these questions, but wish the answer was YES, then this book is a must-read. It provides a very practical look at scriptures that we all recognize, but seldom really understand. Scriptures like: --James 1: "When all kinds of trials and temptations crowd into your lives my dear brothers, don't resent them as intruders, but welcome them as friends; --Romans 8:28: "Now we know that all things work together for God to those that love God, to those that are called according to His purpose"; and --John 14:16, 17: "I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever; that is the Sprit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but you will know Him because He abides in you and will be in you." The central theme of this book is transformation. How can our lives be transformed from what they are to what God wants them to be? Notice that Evans' emphasis is on being transformed into what God wants us to be--not what we want. We are transformed when we desire to serve God according to His purpose for us, not our purpose for ourselves. So, if you believe that God really does want you to experience His best for you, then this book is a must-read. But don't simply read it--focus on it and absorb this pathway to transformation. Armchair Interviews agrees.