The Way to Spiritual Renewal Spiritual renewal begins in the heart and spreads out from there. Spiritual renewal involves inviting God to change our heart, to impact our leadership and to transform our corporate community of faith. He rebuilt the high places his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he also erected altars to Baal and made an Asherah pole, as Ahab king of Israel had done. He bowed down to all the starry hosts and worshiped them. He built altars in the temple of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, “In Jerusalem I will put my Name.” In the two courts of the temple of the Lord, he built altars to all the starry hosts. He sacrificed his own son in the fire, practiced divination, sought omens, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the eyes of the Lord, arousing his anger. 2 Kings 21:3-6 Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-one years. His mother’s name was Jedidah daughter of Adaiah; she was from Bozkath. He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord and followed completely the ways of his father David, not turning aside to the right or to the left. 2 Kings 22:1-2 Personal Renewal is to follow the LORD and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator. Colossians 3:10 Personal Renewal is a Godly leader Personal Renewal requires in our walk with God Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. Romans 12:1-2 Then the king called together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem. 2 Kings 23:1 Leadership Renewal is following the guided by God He saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit Titus 3:5 Leadership Renewal is about Leadership Renewal requires The king stood by the pillar and renewed the covenant in the presence of the Lord—to follow the Lord and keep his commands, statutes and decrees with all his heart and all his soul, thus confirming the words of the covenant written in this book. Then all the people pledged themselves to the covenant. 2 Kings 23:3 Corporate Renewal is making a decision to follow God’s leading Corporate Renewal is making a decision to follow God’s Word For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,and that he appeared to Cephas, and then to the Twelve. 1 Corinthians 15:3-5 Corporate Renewal involves people Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. 2 Corinthians 4:16 What personal decision will lead you toward spiritual renewal? What leadership decision is needed to move to spiritual renewal? What corporate decision might you need to make to see spiritual renewal take root?