As for "New Calvinism"...

Calvinism doesn't have to be new. Nothing real needs to be new. You need real armor. Real armor doesn't change. The spiritual battlefield doesn't change. Doctrine is armor of God. 

Calvinism back in the 16th century wasn't new. It was apostolic. It went back to the fount. 

You start reading a New Calvinist like Kuyper, for instance, and you say, "OK...uhm, hold on here..." They start sounding a little weak. A little shallow. I.e. not old path. Not sound armor. 

You want sound armor. The spiritual battlefield doesn't change. Human nature (biblical anthropology) doesn't change. Historical events and patterns don't change. 

The thing about looking to the past is you can discern what is true and real and good. Think of music. If you lived during the '50s and '60s and '70s, in real time, you would have been marinated in bad music. Most of what was on the radio was bad music. Often really bad music. Yet when you look back from a future vantage point you can see in all that muck the really good music. You can't do that in the present and the future. You're stuck in the noise and missing the signal. 

I'm into classical music myself, but you should know what I mean. Satan wants you continually in the future. He knows you can discern truth and what's real looking to the past. The old paths. 

So when you say, "We must fit Calvinism to be relevant to the present and the future..." you don't even know what the present let alone the future is or, quote, needs. (It needs the same things it needed 500 years ago, by the way.)

It's Marxist to stick a "new" or "neo" on something. "We need a revolution!" Yeah, everything needs to be Year Zero. 

You need real armor. Real armor doesn't change. The spiritual battlefield doesn't change. 

Seeing the real reality

It's become apparent that Satan and his fallen angels and his reprobated fallen humans (not just dupes but special class evil humanity) have had a totalitarian control on this world since I guess forever, in terms of written history. 

Accent on total. Totalitarian. Total. 

We're seeing it now in plain view. In the past it was much easier to hide.

Probably we've all been nicked by this evil, in one way or another, and most don't know it. With some of us it becomes obvious. We're damaged by infant vaccines. We're molested. We're made shallow or deranged by what we are fed on screens or by sound. We're indoctrinated into despair in public schools, being told doom is on the horizon in numerous ways. We get drawn into Satanic 'patriot' wars. Our food supply is incrementally defiled. Actual Orwellian coercion appears in all areas of life. 

Christianity becomes the creep show you see on television. 

All intentional. Today, nothing appearing on a screen is not controlled by evil.

Note: to understand this you have to realize everything you witness or experience is half physical, half spiritual phenomena. There are supernatural forces involved, and it manifests in the physical realm. For instance, some people are so hollow they channel Satan’s spirit purely. Humans in general are not smart enough or capable enough to organize and maintain over generations such evil phenomena. 

We got born into the Kingdom of Satan and have been living in the Kingdom of Satan, thus...no surprise it's all been a Satanic dumpster fire from a to z.

Though because nostalgia filters out the bad or uncomfortable, and Stockholm Syndrome controls present (and probably future) impressions - we think all along we're in a pretty OK place.

Here, though, is something this Christian sees in it all: when God calls one of His own, there is nothing all the nefarious forces of the Kingdom of Satan can do about it. And God reaches down into the most toxic and tangled brew of evil to connect with one of His own. That line of connection is sure, no matter who, or where, or how much enmeshed that person is.