Young, Restless, and Reformed- A failure of catechesis?

Before we dive in, I have two confessions to make.  First, I'm not sure I'm right about this (not that I'm sure I'm right about my other posts).  But if one can't post unsubstantiated claims on their own blog, where can one go (besides wikipedia)?  Second, I'm am not at all "Reformed".  I'm even a little ambigous about the Reformation; I think it was necessary, but a necessary evil nonetheless.  No John Calvin bobbleheads for me, thank you very much.

One of the big looming changes, and potential problems, facing Baptists today along with various non-denom churches is the growth of the so called "Young, Restless, and Reformed".  This refers to the large group of 20- and 30-somethings who follow a Calvinist theology and are largely unsatisfied with the preaching at their churches (so they become fan-boys of one of many preachers with the first name John- Piper, McArthur, Edwards, ect.)  I don't want to talk about Calvinism here however (or really anywhere on the internet as I will probably be much less charitable than I would be in person), but instead want to try and trace where this growth may come from.

As I said earlier, this new Reformed movement is chiefly drawing its ranks from among Baptist and non-denominational evangelicals and I think this might be due to some factors within these churches generally.  Typically believers from these traditions reach adulthood with a hodge-podge of teachings from various preachers, youth ministers, Sunday school teachers, and untalented CCM artists, often without anything really holding it together or synthesizing it into a coherent whole.

Calvinism, for all its faults is logically consistent within itself.  It follows teachings to their logical conclusion, even if that means heresy (I'm looking at you, Limited Atonement).  When met with a system like this, often upon reaching college, many are attracted to it because it makes much more sense than the scattered, sometimes contradictory teachings they previously have experienced.  I think it is significant that traditions that have a program of catechesis (wikipedia article here for my fellow Baptists who may not be familiar with the term) don't seem to experience this as much (but I have no real data on that, just an impression, hence my disclaimer at the outset).  Say what you want about Catholics only memorizing the Church's teachings by rote bu not really believing or "feeling" them- actually don't, you will at the least be uncharitable and more often than not be wrong- but they could at least give you some reasonable explanation of what they believe without resorting to the old standby "Sunday School answers".

I probably need to do some more thinking about this and there definitely are other factors involved, such as the overwhelmingly Reformed domination of the blogosphere (a bit of a chicken-or-the-egg perhaps), but I thought I'd throw it out there.  And just in case I didn't offend any and all Reformed readers who may have happened upon this blog or alert the discerna-bloggers to my presence, let me add this-  I really like N.T. Wright.