Description of Internal Reformation by Michael Scantlebury
Reformation is translated from the Greek word diorthosis. This Greek word means "making thoroughly straight," and was used in the context of restoring that which is crooked or bent to the normally straight condition. In Hebrews 9:6-10 it means the rectification of conditions or setting things to the right, and applies to the time where Messiah would come. Interestingly enough, our English word orthopaedic - the study of the skeletal structure of the human comes from the same word and refers to the straightening of protruding bones or that which was bent. Orthopaedic practice focuses on skeletal change or adjustment, the changing of the internal, hidden skeleton of the human body that gives it its shape and form. In like manner this book deals with "Internal Reformation" - that which seeks to address the internal condition of the Believer's "spiritual skeletal structure." Internal Reformation is designed to straighten that which is bent on the inside