“Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; And His greatness is unsearchable [beyond our understanding]. One generation shall praise Your works to another, and shall declare Your mighty acts.”
Psalm 145:3-4 NKJV
Every challenge that we face in this generation has a single answer. Whether it is fear of Covid, political corruption, BLM riots, woke neo-Marxism, sexual perversity, the abortion holocaust, antisemitism, radical Islamic terrorism, substance abuse, child trafficking, broken families, liberal churches, spiritual apathy, or the uncertainty of one’s eternal destiny, the answer is the same. In every culture, community, household, and individual heart among all nations worldwide throughout history, the gospel is the answer. The good news of God’s redemption of depraved sinners through the Person & finished work of Jesus Christ is the only enduring hope for this generation.
The gospel is not only God’s power to salvation to everyone who believes but it also transforms entire lives, communities, and cultures from the inside out. God performs this miracle by changing one heart at a time by His sovereign power and saving grace to the praise of His glory in Christ Jesus. His greatness is magnified through the salvation of rebel sinners who are guilty of treason and sedition against His sovereign majesty.
The Bible teaches how sinners can be rescued from the wrath of God and it also teaches an entire worldview through which we understand how to live in and engage culture with the salt and light of truth. There is no direction one can figuratively travel in which God has not spoken in His Word. Whether by direct address, principle, or historical example, the Bible is a sufficient guide for everything in life. Developing this understanding is what it means to possess a comprehensive Biblical worldview.
Cultural analysts and statistical researchers are clear regarding the mass departure of young people from the church and oftentimes the Christian faith altogether. Multitudes of church youth eventually leave because they are either not genuinely saved or they do not have a Biblical worldview. Many who are spiritually alive in Christ have minds that are more conformed to the world’s priorities & value system than to the Word of God. Transformation of the heart and mind by God’s Spirit as cultivated through the Christian worldview is something that every generation needs.
It is imperative that the Church equip believers for the ministry of transmitting the truth to the next generation. This begins at home with dad and mom instructing their children in the Word of God. Raising generations who understand what they believe, why they believe it, and know how to defend the faith against the skeptical questions of the day in the context of a secular culture that is increasingly hostile to the exclusive truth claims of Biblical Christianity should be the highest priority in every church and family.
There is hope for this generation because Almighty God ordains the ends and the means for the unfolding of His sovereign plan and eternal purpose for history. God’s people have been entrusted with a duty-bound stewardship responsibility to advance the cause of Christ to the ends of the earth beginning right at home on the grass roots level. May church and family co-champion the dead serious urgency of this stewardship by investing this day in light of that day when our lives flash before our eyes and we give an account before the sovereign majesty of the KING of kings and LORD of lords who is worthy of all praise both now and forever. Soli Deo Gloria!
“Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever & ever. Amen.” Ephesians 3:20-21 NKJV
