Life Change from the Heart is a sermon series on how God changes us from the heart through the gospel. According to Romans, the critical starting point for the gospel is the reality that we are all sinners. We have a sinful nature in us that drive us to do what we don’t want to do, and not do what we really want to do. The gospel tells us that we are in bondage to our sinful nature. That is what the 12 Step Recovery Program calls “powerlessness” that leads to our lives being unmanageable. We are powerless to fix ourselves even if we try. It is only when we come to receive God’s love and grace towards us that we can start our journey of life change from the heart. So, the first step to living by the Spirit is to acknowledge our sins and our powerlessness to fix ourselves.