"We live in a confused and confusing age."
This is how John Stonestreet and Timothy D. Padgett begin their article about today's culture in relation to belief. Sounds about right, does it not? Our kids and youth are growing up in an age of information, opinion, and skepticism toward absolute truth unlike any time before. How are we supposed to think as Christians? This is what we need to be teaching our children as we intentionally disciple them toward a biblical worldview.
Stonestreet and Padgett write about how to find understanding in a confusing world. They uphold the truth that we can actually know things (truth) and present an argument for why that matters. We can't afford to let kids and teenagers formulate opinions and worldviews on their own because the culture of today will lead them as far as it can from absolute truth and a healthy understanding of God.
Stonestreet and Padgett write:
With the postmodern shift, in whose waters we now swim, suspicion and doubt are just the only things we can trust. There’s now a skepticism, not only of authority but also the objectivity of human reason, and this underlies and permeates our relationships to ourselves, to one another, and to the outside world. This habitual doubt now dominates the search for knowledge.
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Why We Can Know Things and Why That Matters - by John Stonestreet and Timothy D. Padgett