Sinclair Ferguson

And I thought that's really impressive and so encouraging to think that here is a document, you know, with...

you know, 100 plus questions.

And it gave this parent the equipment to help these youngsters to think better about the Christian faith.

And, you know, as I've said probably a couple of times in our conversation, to learn to outthink their peers.

And I'm just increasingly convinced that in the world in which our youngsters are now being reared,

The ability to outthink and outlive their peers in a genuinely gracious Christian way will make our youngsters really stand out and point others to the Lord Jesus in wonderful ways.

One of the things catechisms teach us in helping us to think clearly is to realize that that's the case, that actually our youngsters are being catechized by those household gods they hold in their hands, and you see them adoring that household god everywhere they go.

And that household god, in not a few occasions, is actually being controlled by secular catechists, some of whom are determined

to master their minds.

I mean, I remember when some of the gender issues began, my wife saying to me, you know, the word on the street is we don't want to trouble anyone, we're just looking for equality.

And I remember she said to me, you know, then it's not equality they're looking for, it's domination.

And this isn't going to affect anyone, you know, and it's affecting the children in elementary school.

It's affecting states, it's affecting governments, affecting our world.

And it was all taken in because people were not able to think clearly.

And however we do it, however we do it,

unless we catechize our children, we will be handing them over to the catechists of the world.

And the catechists, some of the catechists of the world are clearly determined that you will think this way.

So when I was a youngster, I remember people of my parents' generation lamenting what was happening in the Soviet Union.

how unless you thought a certain way and conformed a certain way, there were jobs that you would not get.

There were educational opportunities you wouldn't have.