Repentance Renewal Reformation

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Repentance Renewal Reformation

• Repentance
• Renewal
• Reformation

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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

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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

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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.

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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