If you have ever spent significant time around children you’ve probably, at one time or another, been caught in the time-stopping vortex of unrelenting questions: Why? Why? How? What? Why? When? Oh, and Why?
While this dizzying spiral can be overwhelming, it can simultaneously serve as a wonderful indicator of a developing young mind and a curious spirit. In the first half of the opening chapter of Second Peter, the apostle called for his audience to move from spiritual childhood to spiritual maturity by pointing out that God has provided the resources to use, has prescribed the route to take, and has promised the results to anticipate should they comply. Arriving now at the second half of that same chapter, we find Peter anticipating some follow-up questions from these growing-but-still-immature spiritual infants, inquiries the apostle sets out to preemptively address.
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Josiah has served the Oakridge Bible Chapel family as one of its elders and one of its pastoral staff members since September 2018, before which he ministered as an associate pastor to a local congregation in the Canadian prairies. Josiah's desire is to be used by God to help equip the church for ministry, both while gathered (edification) and while scattered (evangelization). He is married to Patricia, and together they have five children—Jonah, Henry, Nathaniel, Josephine, and Benjamin.
