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

• 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

– 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