Podcast Show Notes

Title: Transformation in 2025: Becoming God’s Masterpiece Speaker: Paul Mulroney Church: C3 Stand Series: Free Flow Summer Series

Episode Summary: In this inspiring message to launch 2025, Ps Paul Mulroney explores C3 Stand’s prophetic theme for the year: Transformation. Building on Ps Elton’s message on being chosen—called by a higher power, for a divine purpose, under God’s favour—Paul unpacks what transformation looks like for individuals, the church, and the wider body of Christ.

This sermon journeys through Romans 12:1–2, revealing how true transformation begins when we offer our whole selves as “living sacrifices” and allow God to renew our minds from the inside out. Paul contrasts the call to transformation with the pressure to conform to the world, drawing on the testimony of the early church and their radical, countercultural love.

Using a creative live origami demonstration, Paul illustrates how God shapes His people into masterpieces—unique, purposeful, and beautiful. Even when we can’t see the final picture, God is folding, forming, preparing us for the future He has designed.

2025 will “have a different shape than 2024,” and Paul invites listeners to stop, reflect, reset, and ask: What needs to change in my life for God’s transformational power to flow?

Topics Covered:

• Transition vs. transformation: the prophetic word for 2025
• What it means to be chosen by God: higher power, purpose, and favour
• Stories from Bold Light country ministry (2024 recap)
• How Romans 12:1–2 describes the foundation of transformation
• Offering our everyday life as worship
• The danger of conforming to the culture around us
• The radical love and lifestyle of the early church
• Transformation through renewing the mind
• Origami as a picture of God’s shaping process
• Personal reflection: what needs to change in your life?
• Moving forward empowered by God’s strength, not our own

Key Scripture References:

• Romans 12:1–2 (NIV, MSG)
• Proverbs 23:7
• Examples from the lives of Peter, Paul, Gideon, Abram/Abraham

Listener Takeaways:

• God is calling His people into transformation—deep, lasting, Spirit-led change.
• Transformation happens when we surrender every part of our lives to God.
• Don’t conform to the patterns of the world; fix your attention on God.
• The early church changed the world through love, sacrificial giving, and integrity.
• Transformation often feels confusing in the moment—like origami—yet God sees the masterpiece.
• A new year requires new choices; without change, we repeat old patterns.
• God’s will becomes clear as we immerse ourselves in His Word and listen to His Spirit.
• When we submit to God’s shaping, He brings out the best in us and leads us into maturity.

About the Speaker: Paul and Caroline Mulroney are itinerant pastors with C3 Stand and founders of Bold Light, a country ministry bringing encouragement, preaching, and pastoral support to churches across regional WA. In 2024 they completed 18 speaking engagements, 13 country trips, and ministered across 3125 km—answering God’s call to stand, shine, and bring hope to the bush.