DRAFT
Why not
Now?
Breaking
through to Caribbean Renewal, Revival and Reformation in our Time
GORDON MULLINGS
DECEMBER 2000
“Repent,
then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of
refreshing may come from the Lord, and that he may send the Christ, who
has been appointed for you — even Jesus.” [Acts
3:19 - 20.]
CHAPTERS/LESSONS[1]
3
Man Shall Not Live by Bread Alone: Christ-Centred
Renewal in the Emerging Global Age
4
The Fulness Vision:
Towards Caribbean Renewal under Christ
5
A Framework For Discipleship: Transforming
The Caribbean Through The Fulness of Christ
6
Cells and Renewal: Small Groups, the Fulness
Vision and Renewal
7 The Bible in Renewal: Discovering and Living
by God's Wisdom
9
Renewal in the Marketplace:
Work and the Creation and Right Use of Wealth
12
Breakthrough to Reformation: Renewing
Community Leadership and Life Through Christ
13 A Caribbean
Challenge
INTRODUCTION
A Letter to the
Reader
Gentle Reader
A home is far more than
a house. However, a well-designed house provides a good environment to
support the life of a family.
Just so, a training framework
for discipleship is not discipleship itself: learning, living by, and witnessing
to the truth that is in Jesus, as a part of God’s family in the world.
But, systematic training in a consciously designed framework for discipleship
provides a vital, integrated body of knowledge and skills that will help us
as we live as God’s city, a beacon of hope shining on a hill in a dark world.
Thus, if we, the
Church in the Caribbean, are to contribute to the sorely
needed renewal and reformation of our region, we must first look to the quality
of our discipleship, witness and service in the community and wider world.
Especially, we must look to how we have worked to develop our youth to live
out their faith through godly service in the communities of our region.
To that end, this book is dedicated.
May God bless us as we
serve him in our region in the Third Christian Millenium.
Gordon
Kingston
December 2000