In a recent special report issue Time magazine announced that the New Calvinism is number three of the top ten ideas changing the world right now. Time states that the New Calvinism is Evangelicalism's latest success story. Keep in mind, this is the same Time magazine that asked the question, "Is God Dead?" on its April 8, 1966 cover. That cover story was preceeded by another story printed on October 22, 1965 concerning the God is dead movement. What a difference 40 years makes! In 1966 we had just moved from Queens to northern New Jersey and the biggest worry of my fourth grade life was whether the Yankess could turn a miserable 1965 season (sixth in the American League with a record of 77-85) and go to the World Series. They didn't. God wasn't the only one who was declared dead that year.
Now Time magazine has said that the new Calvinism is making a comeback, although it doesn't quite look like its old self. While the story is short (very short) on details about what the "New Calvinism" means, I am very encouraged to see it appear in print, and in Time because it gives Christians a point of contact with society to tell them of Jesus and the cross. I know there will be some Christians who may view the story as shallow and not worth thinking about. But, hopefully there will be many others who will see this as an opportunity to show dying men, women, and children the mercy that God has freely shown men in the cross of Christ.
What are we waiting for?
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