We seem to live in an age where concepts such as right and wrong, good and evil, and truth and falsehood are being increasingly disputed and fought over. Why is this and how did we get here? In this age of moral confusion, what does the ancient command for the people of God to be holy as God is holy mean for us today?
Noah was called “a righteous man, blameless in his generation” and in Acts 2 Peter urges those he is preaching to “to save themselves from this corrupt generation”. In a one sense this idea of those living faithful, committed lives is true for all people in all generations. There has always been and there always will be this remnant of the faithful in all generations. In another sense, each generation must, in the words of Jesus (Luke 12:54-56) “interpret the present time” in order to rise to the challenge of today. What are those challenges to faithful discipleship in today's "zeitgeist" or "spirit of the age", and what type of people is God calling us to become today?
