For Such a Time as This

The ability to discover the next cause of panic and outrage has become the currency of modern leadership. No actual insight or virtue is required to hold such a mantle; the mere ability to appease man’s proclivity to fear will suffice. Men are drawn to the spectacle of drama—growing tension, imminent danger, and existential threats. This fixation reduces man to a spectator, going through prescribed motions, handed tools to amplify his screams from the safety of his seemingly endangered, air-conditioned abode.

This is not an implicit suggestion that fearful actors and real dangers do not exist, but rather that we have become more enamored with crisis than with hope. We find greater thrill in witch-hunting than in the building of great things. Consequently, we keep our heads low, sound alarms in panicked frenzy, and construct bunkers where the rot of the world cannot spoil us or those we love. The game is survival; we are its pawns, and men like Darwin are its architects.

As Christians, we are not immune to this game. We attempt to baptize pessimism and call it prudence. We baptize risk aversion and name it wisdom. We baptize fatalism and disguise it as eschatological piety. Aware of the chaos around us, we convince ourselves that we are perpetual victims in a drama where Christians must merely survive the world’s attempts to silence and suffocate us.

The temptation, then, is to see the world exclusively through the lenses of our favorite authors, news anchors, political commentators, academic experts, and digital influencers. We inherit both their loves and their fears—for better or worse.

To resist this temptation, we must remember that God is neither perplexed, deterred, nor defeated by evil—and those who belong to His kingdom must not be either. He holds the whole world in His hands, including those corners where His enemies do their worst. He alone is omnipotent and will not share His throne or His glory with another. Long before the foundations of the world were laid, God devised a plan to eradicate evil, and He executed His redemptive purposes with flawless precision. Having defeated sin and death, all authority on earth and in heaven belongs to Him. This God is unacquainted with failure or loss. He must win, and His sovereignty reverberates with excellence.

We are training students to confront chaos and build great cultures for Christ the King

In considering God’s triumph over evil, we must also reckon with the truth that He has equipped His children to restore and build that which is true, beautiful, and good. The excellence of His redemptive plan includes His deliberate wisdom in calling particular people to particular moments in history. It is no coincidence that you were born into these days of chaos. You were made for them.

Rather than calling the Apostle Paul, Augustine, Calvin, or Spurgeon to this moment, God called you. And He has done more than call you—He has given you marching orders: to bring order out of chaos and to build with excellence. You have not been redeemed merely to survive, but to cause trouble—the kind of trouble that confronts evil with hope, builds institutions with optimism, and bears fruit in the fires of discomfort.

At New Saint Andrew’s College, we are training students to confront chaos and build great cultures for Christ the King. While socialism threatens to impoverish, we train students to create true wealth. While feminism seeks to erase sexual distinction, we train students to delight in the differences between men and women. While globalism threatens to dehumanize and foster dependency, we train students in the art of being truly human and genuinely free.

While post-colonialism works to demonize the West, we train students to love their home and the legacy of Christendom. While modernity seeks to discard tradition and erase the old, we train our students to cherish their heritage. While many are tempted toward bitterness, we train students to embrace responsibility and cultivate gratitude. While the world prizes softness and timidity, we train our students to be courageous, articulate, and unashamed in their love of righteousness and hatred of evil. While numerous Christian institutions have chosen appeasement, we remain committed to faithfulness.

Though chaos may abound, order will be restored where the Lord has placed us—for we were made for such a time as this.

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