by Chelsey Gordon
One afternoon as I rushed my crew through the aisles of Aldi, hoping to get in and out without a small child throwing a tantrum or requiring a bathroom break, my two-year-old looked up at me from the front of the cart with a grin. “Momma?” she asked. “Yes, baby,” I absentmindedly replied. “What is our only hope in life and death?” Caught off guard and needing to finish the task at hand, I simply threw the question back at her. “What do you think the answer is?” She smiled with pride, answering, “That we are not our own but belong to God!” My heart swelled, surprised by the reminder of such profound truth in the middle of grocery shopping mundanity. “Yes, ma’am. That’s absolutely right.”
Now, before you become too impressed with my child’s theological acumen, realize this interaction didn’t occur in a vacuum. This conversation, and others like it, was not truly spontaneous. It was the result of previous catechesis using The New City Catechism.
If you aren’t familiar with this idea, to catechize means “to instruct systematically especially by questions, answers, and explanations and corrections.”[1] A catechism, then, is “a summary of religious doctrine
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