‘To repent’ is not simply a solitary event where we give up everything out of a sense of obligation to an ethical system. It’s important that we do not remove the apocalyptic or eschatological dimensions from repentance (meaning that our public world has been radically altered by the arrival of Jesus, which is to reject any attempt to privatize repentance as in “it’s just about Jesus and me and my heart”). In other words, we must think of our world in a completely different way. New creation is here. The King has arrived. A new power is in charge. The material world is under radical transformation. To repent is learning how to live in this new world (which has been transformed in an apocalyptic fashion), which means that flourishing in this new world will require a total devotion to the aims and overall lifestyle of Jesus!