Many believers love God deeply — yet still feel stuck in old patterns of thinking, reacting, and coping. In this Core Episode, we explore a disconnect many believers experience but rarely talk about: salvation is complete, yet transformation often feels slow.

Scripture tells us that in Christ we are a new creation — our spirit is made new in a moment. But our soul — our mind, will, and emotions — must be renewed over time. That renewal process is where many of us get stuck, not because we lack faith, but because of the mindsets we’ve learned and carried with us.

Blending Scripture and neuroscience, this teaching reframes renewal as a grace‑filled process rather than a performance‑based one and invites you to begin noticing the lens you’ve been living through.

• Salvation makes you new instantly, but mind renewal is a process that unfolds over time
• Mindsets are learned patterns — not moral failures — and they quietly shape identity and behavior
• Knowing truth is not the same as living free when mindsets remain unexamined
• Limiting mindsets can block our ability to receive what God has already given us at salvation
• Awareness, not willpower, is the starting point for lasting transformation

When salvation and lived experience feel disconnected, many believers assume something is wrong with them. In reality, the issue is often unrenewed thinking — not lack of faith.

Understanding how mindsets form and how God designed the brain to change removes shame and restores hope. Mind renewal allows us to align our thoughts with truth so we can walk in peace, freedom, healing, and wholeness.

Because this is a Core Episode, listeners are provided with a Reflection Guide, designed to help you review and digest the content of this episode and prepare your heart and mind for application in the next episode.

The Reflection Guide is not meant to fix or diagnose you. It is designed to help you slow down, become familiar with mindset language, and gently notice the lens you may have been living through.

Inside the Reflection Guide, you’ll find:

• Clear references to the biblical and neuroscience principles taught in this episode
• A simple rhythm of pause, prayer, and awareness to support safe reflection
• Mindset language lists to help you notice patterns without judgment
• Reflection questions that prepare you for deeper application in the next episode

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