why my worldview matters
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Why My Worldview Matters
Koinonia Bible Study
April 13, 2007
*Adapted from Colson & Warrens Wide Angle: Framing Your Worldview
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Worldview Definition
DVD Clip from Wide Angle
A wor ldv iewis simply the way we think
the world works, and how we fit into it.
[Chuck Colson, Wide Angle DVD]
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Importance of a Road Map
e.g. Driving to New York city
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Need Road Map for Life
Worldview Lifes Road Map
Our worldview determines our:
Decisions Our life goals
What we think will make us happy
How we spend our money
How we treat others
Really difficult to live according to what youdontthink!
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What is My Worldview?
Everyone already has
worldview
Picked up from Parents
Friends & neighbors
School
TV & movies
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Hidden Worldviews
All around us:
Canon: Image is everything.
Image is more important than substance
Sprite: Thirst is everything. Obey your thirst
Follow after your desires.
Volkswagen: Jaded is overrated. Dare to behappy.
Material possessions can bring happiness
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Need to Consider
All Worldviews are not equal
Just like there are good/bad road maps
there are:
Good Worldview vs. Bad Worldview
Accurate Worldview vs. InaccurateWorldview
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Questions of Life
Four Big Questions of Life
Where did I come from?
Why is the world such a mess?
Is there a solution?
What is my lifes purpose?
Worldview affects how you answer thesequestions
Your wor ldv iew is very p ract ical !
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Worldview Matters!
Ideas Consequences
e.g., Viktor Frankl (1905-
1997) Holocaust survivor of
Auschwitz concentration
camp
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Frankls Warning
I am absolutely convinced that the gas
chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and
Maidanek were ultimately prepared not insome ministry or other in Berlin, but rather
at the desks and in lecture halls of
nihilistic scientists and philosophers.
[Ravi Zacharias, Can Man Live without God?, p.25]
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Nihilistic Worldview
Nihilism: A worldview that denies any objectiveground of truth and especially of moral truths
Hitlers boast: I freed Germany from the stupidand degrading fallacies of conscience andmorality . We will train young people beforewhom the world will tremble. I want young
people capable of violence imperious(dominant), relentless and cruel.
[Ravi Zacharias, Can Man Live without God?, p.23]
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Why Worldview Matters
Worldview Framework for UnderstandingReality
Physical Laws
e.g., Gravity
Moral Laws e.g., Adultery
WisdomAligning ones life to Reality
Folly is a stubborn swimming against thestream of the universe spitting into the wind.(Chuck Colson, How Now Shall we Live?, p.17)
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Many Worldviews
Atheism
Existentialism
Hedonism
Humanism
Materialism Nihilism
Pantheism
Polytheism
PostmodernismPragmatism
Socialism
Theism
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Worldviews in Conflict
A man said to the universe:
Sir, I exist.
However, replied the universe,
The fact has not created in me a sense
of obligation.
- Stephen Crane, War is Kind and Other Lines.
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Worldviews in Conflict
When I consider your heavens, thework of your fingers, the moon and thestars, which you have set in place,what is man that you are mindful of
him, the son of man that you care forhim? You made him a little lower thanthe heavenly beings and crowned himwith glory and honor.
Psalm 8:3-5
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Examples of Worldviews
Naturalism - The Cosmos is all that is or ever was orever will be. (Carl Sagan, astronomer)
Existentialism-it is meaningless that we are born; itis meaningless that we die. (Jean Paul Sartre,author)
Hedonism-Whoever dies with the most toys wins-
Anonymous
Contradicting worldviews cannotall be correct!
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Christianity Is a Worldview
Failure of the Christian
mind:
We limit Christian thinking
to a very narrow slice of life
Personal morality anddevotion
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Christianity Is a Worldview
Biblical Framework:
God created the Universe & Nature
Natural Laws & Environment God created People
Moral laws
God made us Social Beings
Social Justice & Political Principles
God gave us Minds
Education
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Christianity Is a Worldview
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Loving God with Our Minds
Mark 12:30 Love the Lord your God with all
your heart and with all your soul and with all
your mind and with all your strength.
Romans 12:2 Do not conform any longer to
the pattern of this world, but be transformed by
the renewing of your mind. Then you will beable to test and approve what God's will is--
his good, pleasing and perfect will.
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Questions of Life: Revisited
Four Big Questions of Life
Where did I come from?
Why is the world such a mess?
Is there a solution?
What is my lifes purpose?
Christ iani ty sat isfactor i ly answers al l 4of the Big questions of life!
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