meta- [“change”] than on their verbal roots (Meyer 1889, 468; Moo 1996, 755–56). If we recognize that “conformity to this age is no superficial matter” (Barrett 1957, 214), the difference between the two imperatives is not merely a contrast between external and essential change. What matters most is the change-agent. To be conformed is to fit comfortably within the present age. To be transformed is to be fitted by God for the age to come. Consequently, Christians are often misfits in the world’s