What This Old World Needs

June 27th 2020 I watched a video of a college student who called the police and said we need help there is an interviewer trying to “fearmonger students”—and get this, “by asking them questions”. This is a frighting sad example of the adverse effects of Postmodernism. What does this mean to the church today? Simply that we need to find ways to approach young people in order to persuade them with the eternal gospel of Jesus Christ. Not long ago we could assume that people believed in the authority and inspiration of Scripture; we cannot assume that today for young people are literally taught to no longer regard truth as absolute, objective, and unequivocal, i.e., understandable in only one clear way. The privatizing of faith (designing our own religion) and the pluralizing of Christianity (accepting conflicting beliefs) clash violently with the biblical teaching that there is one Lord, one faith and one baptism”. But given all these—some things have not, nor will they ever change. There are things that People Will Always Need: People Still Need A Good Conscience, People Need Truth, People Need Morality, People Need Hope, People Need Faith, and People Need Love…