Is That Andy?

“A worldview is more than a private and personal viewpoint; it is a comprehensive life system that seeks to answer the basic questions of life. A Christians worldview is not just one personals faith expression. It is an all-consuming way of life and is applicable to all spheres of life.”
- David Dockery and Gregory Thornbury

• Characteristics of a Worldview
1. It has a holistic goal
• Seeks to integrate every area of life into a cohesive whole
2. It is a perspectival approach
• What we approach the task out of who and what we are; we bring ourselves (therefore, a necessary subjectivity)
3. It is an exploratory process
• Takes place over time, over a lifetime
• It probes relationships
4. It is pluralistic
• There are multiple places from which we all begin our worldview building
• There are various methods we follow
• Therefore there are pluralistic conclusions drawn
• Starting places and methodology mean everything
5. It has action outcomes
• what we think and value necessarily emerges into what we do, how we live, unless and until we change our worldview.
• Howe we interpret reality shapes our lifestyle.
• Moral dimension - do you claim to follow Jesus’ world view? how would one know?

• What do world views do for us?
• need to unify our thought life
• the world is full of thinks to think about
• not all ideas are acceptable world views like sorting and piecing
• for christ integrates life to faith and faith to life
• mental image - quilt
• need to provide meaning
• humans are meaning-seekers
• need to gain direction for our actions
• endless choice sof things to do options to weigh experiences to decide about
• wv are guiding mechanisims
• for christ orur giuiding mechanisim is the bible
• mental picture - map and directions
• need to establish a foundation for our exploration
• life is an adventure, a pilgramage
• we never know very far in advance, but we plan to move forward and explore
• wv provide sense centering for assessing save/unsafe