Wolters Reflection

I have mixed feelings on how to react to Wolters’ writing. Wolters takes what may seem like something that all reformational Christians should already know and reinforces this classical worldview in a useful way. The musings of Wolters have been the integral backbone of my entire educational experience over my years at Dordt. However, I have never been formally introduced to these concepts before starting college. This may be obvious to anyone who knows me, but up until a couple of years ago, I had never heard of the terms, “reformational,” “worldview,” “structure and direction,” or even “creation, fall, redemption.” I never really made the connection until reading chapter five that the “creation, fall, redemption” motif is actually a type of worldview. Reading Wolters has helped me to realize that my own non-reformational upbringing still instilled value in these same concepts that Wolters speaks of. It’s just that when I was originally taught about this, …show more content…
I know that I don’t want to continue after college instructing youth within the Reformed denomination, yet I definitely want to use what I have learned. As I was summarizing Wolters, I realized that only a little bit of “dumbing down” would be needed to be able to share his points with my youth group as a valid lesson that can for the most part be applied to any denomination. A few points Wolters made specifically struck out to me as being directly pertinent to youth ministry. Wolters reminded me of what one of my favorite youth ministry authors, Andy Root, wrote about in his book Unpacking Scripture in Youth Ministry. Both Root and Wolters talk about how the Bible shouldn’t be expected to tell teens which college to go to or which career they should major in. If I enable my students to become so gullible that they do not develop the skills to discern Scripture on their own, then their trust and dependence on its