“Feed My Lambs!”—Command to Catechize

One of the most powerful instruments in the Protestant Reformed Churches for the salvation of souls and the coming of the Kingdom of God is catechism. To their children and young people, the churches give sound, systematic, intensive, and thorough instruction in the truth of Holy Scripture -- the history, the doctrine, and the commandments. They begin with the children at the age of five or six and continue until they are in their late teens or early twenties. The program is structured so as to...