The Sanctification Gap: Models for Change

Today, we address again this sanctification gap – how we're declared righteous but don't always act, speak, think or feel righteously. When we think about sanctification or progress in the spiritual life – how do we go about it i.e., how to make spiritual/moral improvements to our character? How do we turn what God says about us in Christ (i.e., that we're NOT guilty and that we're righteous in God's sight – "saints") how do we turn God's declaration of righteousness into actual, practical character change?

In these sections written by St Paul, we see: 
1) The "Common-Sense", Acceptable Way of Progress 
2) The Counterintuitive, AcceptING Way of Progress