Why Catechesis now?

Posted on October 11, 2012 
Filed under Opinion, Resources

“The church in Western culture today is experiencing a crisis of holiness. To be holy is to be ‘set apart,’ different, living life according to God’s Word and story, not according to the stories that the world tells us are the meaning of life.

The more the culture around us becomes post- and anti-Christian the more we discover church members in our midst, sitting under sound preaching, yet nonetheless holding half-pagan views of God, truth, and human nature, and in their daily lives using sex, money, and power in very worldly ways. …”

– Tim Keller lays out the need for a new Catechism to be launched next week by The Gospel Coalition.

Related: Grounded in the Gospel – J I Packer on The White Horse Inn.