Repentance Renewal Reformation
• Repentance
• Renewal
• Reformation
Repentance
• Guilt feelings not enough, Hebrews 12: 17
– Esau
• Turn from sin, Matthew 4: 17 (metanoeó)
– Change your mind (meta + nous)
• Hate sin
• Love good
– As a whole person
– In every area of life
• Turn to Christ, Acts 15: 19 (epistrephó)
– Come under new King
Renewal
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Return to our first love, Rev 2: 4
Return to boiling zeal, Romans 12: 11
Total surrender, Romans 12: 1, 2
Truly walk in the Spirit, Galatians 5: 25
All areas of life renewed
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Personal life
Family life
Church life
Professional life
Reformation
• First: Repentance and Renewal
• Then: Fundamentally re-think and reform
all areas of life in the light of Scripture
under the guidance of the Holy Spirit
• Example: not healthcare education with
Christian sauce over it, but education
transformed by up-to-date application of
the Word of God to the field of healthcare
• Same must be done for education,
economics, media, politics, literature,
mathematics, philosophy, etc.
Reformation – how?
• Read your Bible through the glasses of
your calling and profession
• Get rid of the sacred-secular split
• Jesus as Lord over every area of your life
• In family, tribe, nation, profession, church
• Collaborate / network with others who are
doing the same