Many sincere Christians quietly carry the same question:

If Jesus has saved me, why do I still struggle with the same patterns, sins, and frustrations?

In this episode of Spiritually Formed, Brian and Katie Hess explore why so many believers feel stuck between what the gospel promises and what they actually experience in their lives.

Often the problem isn’t a lack of sincerity or desire for God—it’s an incomplete understanding of the gospel itself. Many Christians have been taught that salvation frees us from the penalty of sin, but they’ve never been shown how the grace of God also begins to free us from the power of sin.

We talk about why justification happens in a moment, but transformation is a process—and why trying to change ourselves through sheer effort of ...