The Transformational Model Analysis

The transformational model strives, and comes close, to success because this model operates on the precept that transformation “is a complete regeneration of our being, thinking, and doing that works itself out in our families and communities. It is not something that is achieved by external force or theories of social change but by a work of God in the heart. It is reflected in communities that are compassionate, just, and free.”[ ] The inadequacy of this model results from an insufficient awareness that to change a heart, we must first reach that heart. We must have insight, either through personal experience or by God’s own edict upon us, allowing us to know firsthand, how the people we are trying to reach are feeling in their present
Others sold their body out of desperation for an income. Through prayer, and having their brokenness ministered to, Dr. Lunsford saw more than 25 women leave the sex industry, in favor of living a life of God. As is true with every mission trip Dr. Lunsford embarks on, the healing didn’t stop with the redemption of these women. Whole Dr. Lunsford’s trips are short-term is mission embraces a long-term vision. Some of these women chose to be trained in helping other sex workers leave their dire existence. Once trained, they venture into the field, helping redeem women just like the women they once were.[
Just as “faith by itself, if not accompanied by action, is dead”(James 3:4), so too, is the fact that we cannot do the work of our heavenly Father without faith; “his faith and his actions were working together, and his faith was made complete by what he did”(James 2:22). So we see that a monetary donation, unaccompanied by prayer, long-range mission goals, heartfelt compassion, and the faith of an honest believer, is pointless. The check writer may as well burn their money. But their unconscious God-complexes of the economically rich keeps them from seeing or even considering the harm they are inflicting because they are not giving from a heart of service.[ ] The rich are often blind to the fact that “when I want to do good, evil is right there with