While there are some who have been raised in Christ-loving families, the majority of people today grew up in families that either did not believe in Christ, or either gave mere lip service to Christ but never actually followed Him. The life of Josiah is one of revolutionary change within a society that almost universally denied the God of the Bible or, at best, gave Him only lip service. God continues to call people to break with a family tradition of unbelief or half-hearted lip service to a passionate devotion that will eventually engulf all nations with the power of the Gospel.
