“One, I believe, is an earnest commitment to global missions, stirring up ourselves, calling young people, some of you here, calling those in our churches to consider and to go for the cause of the gospel to the unreached peoples of the world,” he said. “I believe the other area is in our commitment and passion for personal holiness.”

For all its successes, Neo-Calvinism needs to do a better job of spurring zeal for global missions and personal holiness, a speaker said April 11 at the Together for the Gospel conference in Louisville, Ky.

Kevin DeYoung, senior pastor of University Reformed Church in East Lansing, Mich., told thousands of pastors and church leaders that the movement known as the New Calvinism or Reformed Resurgence is “a work of God in our generation” that did not begin with the first Together for the Gospel gathering in 2006.

“It started with Paul, with Jesus, but this new resurgence, at least the term, ‘Young, Restless, Reformed’ is fairly recent,” DeYoung said. He cited several successes of the movement that he said ought to be celebrated.

“We are known, I hope, for a commitment to the Scriptures, a commitment to expositional preaching, a commitment to the doctrines of grace, a commitment to biblical manhood and womanhood,” he said. “We are known for our commitment, I hope, to the uniqueness of Jesus Christ, for our commitment to penal substitutionary atonement, our commitment to justification by faith alone, and above all, and in all, and summarizing it all, our commitment to the centrality of the gospel, and all of that should be celebrated and commended.”

Despite that, DeYoung identified “at least two very critical areas in which we have yet to show the sort of passion and enthusiasm and growth that we need.”

“One, I believe, is an earnest commitment to global missions, stirring up ourselves, calling young people, some of you here, calling those in our churches to consider and to go for the cause of the gospel to the unreached peoples of the world,” he said. “I believe the other area is in our commitment and passion for personal holiness.”

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