Spiritual Formation
Awakening Creation
Discipleship as participation with God rather than performance for God - spiritual formation patterned on the seven days of creation.
In a world overflowing with ideas about God yet starving for His presence, Awakening Creation calls believers back to the living center of faith — communion with Christ.
This groundbreaking work reimagines Christian discipleship not as performance for God, but participation with God — an indwelling life of grace, love, and transformation. Drawing from the pattern of the seven days of creation, Jaco Marais reveals how the same God who once said, “Let there be light,” continues to awaken His people from within.
Each chapter unfolds a new stage of spiritual formation — from illumination to order, from formation to fruitfulness — showing how the story of creation becomes the story of the believer.
Through biblical depth and lyrical insight, Awakening Creation bridges theology and experience, head and heart, heaven and earth. It brings together the clarity of Protestant orthodoxy and the wonder of Spirit-filled life, offering a fresh yet faithful vision of what it means to walk with God in the modern world.
This is not another book about religion — it is a rediscovery of relationship.
Not another theory about faith — but an invitation to live as Christ’s dwelling place on earth.
Readers will discover:
- How God’s creative order reveals His redemptive purpose.
- The stages of spiritual growth reflected in the seven days of creation.
- A biblical vision of Christian mysticism — Christ-centered, Spirit-led, and anchored in Scripture.
- The beauty of everyday life as a place of divine communion.
- How the Church can live as heaven’s embassy in a divided world.
Rooted in the Word (NKJV), aligned with the doctrines of the Full Gospel Church, and written in a language accessible to both seekers and mature believers, Awakening Creation is a call to live the Gospel as God intended — as living communion, not distant belief.
If you’re ready to rediscover faith that breathes, loves, and transforms, this book will help you awaken to the light that has always been within reach.
“For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness who has shone in our hearts.”
— 2 Corinthians 4:6 (NKJV)