ReformationUnderway

There is an upcoming book by a gentleman named Collin Hansen, titled Young, Restless, and Reformed: A Journalist's Journey with the New Calvinists. The book looks to analyze the recent resurgence of Reformed doctrine, especially among younger evangelicals, and is due in April from Crossway.

Many Christian books are released with endorsements from well known pastors and/or scholars printed on the cover or jacket. You may well have read, or breezed over, hundreds of them. One of the endorsements for this upcoming book really caused me to pause, and to realize that in the space of just a few sentences I had been been encouraged and truly called to pray over the movement which spurred the book. Meditate on these words, written with the heart of a shepherd, from Dr. Don Carson:

While other movements have been making a bigger splash in the headlines, a number of strategic ministries have been quietly (and sometimes not so quietly!) upholding the doctrines of grace, planting churches, seeing people converted, teaching the whole counsel of God. These are now beginning to coalesce in a variety of mutually encouraging ways. It is a pleasure to recommend Collin Hansen's survey of some of these movements. This is not the time for Reformed triumphalism. It is the time for quiet gratitude to God and earnest intercessory prayer, with tears, that what has begun well will flourish beyond all human expectation.

(H/T: Justin Taylor)