On Wednesday nights we have been studying Worldviews.  How different people view the world.  And most importantly how an unbeliever’s Worldview is inadequate to explain the life we live.  For example if you have an evolutionistic, athiest Worldview (you believe we came from apes and evolved and there is no God), then you cannot answer any questions regarding morality.  For you there can be no right or wrong just survival of the fittest.  For you there cannot be a discussion over beauty or something being good or bad.  If, and that’s a big if, we are just higher animals.

A bigger problem, however, is not unbeliever’s Worldviews but the Worldview ofthose who claim to be Christians.  For far too long Christians have lived compartmentalized lives and haven’t understood a complete Biblical Worldview.  It’s easy for Christians in America to be “Sunday Christians” and consider all other issues as “secular”.

C.S. Lewis said, “There is no neutral ground in the universe.  Every inch, every split second, is claimed by God and counterclaimed by satan.”   We as Christians have falsely thought and believed that there is neutral ground in our world today.  That isn’t so.  If this truly is our Father’s World and He created it everything is sacred and we need to have Christian Worldview for everything.

That means that Christians view mathematics different than non-Christians and Science and Art and Law and Politics and The Environment and Animals and Work and Education and Entertainment and … I think you get the point.   Instead we label some parts of life as “Church things” and everything else as “secular things”.  We need to start thinking how does a Christian view these things differently than a non-Christian.  Only by doing that will we be consistent in our faith and witness.

I just finished reading, “Homeschooling from a Biblical Worldview” by Israel Wayne.  He was a speaker at our state Homeschool Convention two years ago.  If you want a great challenging read and want to start thinking about Education from a Christian Worldview this would be a place to start.  But even if you don’t pick up this book do something this week to challenge your thinking in an area that you have always considered “secular” instead of “sacred”.