Understanding of the Times
Kalsbeek's concluding article in a long-running column urges modern Christians to understand contemporary worldviews and their consequences in order to effectively oppose false ideologies. Drawing on the biblical example of the sons of Issachar, the article demonstrates through sobering statistics how worldview ignorance among professing Christians and church youth has led to the adoption of secular values contradicting biblical truth. The piece serves as a call to Reformed believers to engage seriously with present-day ideological challenges as a matter of Christian responsibility and spiritual warfare.
"And the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do; the heads of them were two hundred; and all their brethren were at their commandment." (I Chronicles 12:32) "So that will be the burden of this rubric: to scrutinize the times in which we live in order that we may grow in our understanding of the times, and consider what we ought to do." That quote from the first article written for this rubric back in September of 2002 has...
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