On Friday February 5 we started our Friday Night ministry with the idea of a ‘worldview’. Everyone sees the world differently with different assumptions, some of which we are aware of an some of which we are not. No-one has a perfectly balanced view of how life really is; it is as if we are all wearing different sets of glasses which tint how we interpret things.
For example, if the news runs a story about rising interest rates, what does that mean for you? If you are a younger person with a large mortgage, it is bad news. If you are a self-funded retiree, it is good news. If you are a teenager at home, it doesn’t mean all that much at all.
Your ‘worldview’ is the collection of all the presuppositions we have about the world in which we live. It is influenced by your age, cultural background, the culture you live in now, your gender, your political views, your education, your family of origin, your past experiences, your religious views and many other things.
How does this fit in with being a Christian? Christianity is not just about moral issues or what we do on a Sunday morning. It affects our whole life and how we see the world. The world as God describes it in the Bible is how it really is. The Bible gives us guidance on such varied things as anger, money, sex, ethics, work, food and much more. We need to understand how God describes the world in the Bible so we can line up our assumptions with God’s assumptions. We need to try to see the world as God does, so we can know how to act in a way that pleases God.