This approach pushed both settlements to the brink of starvation. Yet when land was assigned and people could reap the benefits of their own work, the communities prospered. The Bible commends reward for hard work among able-bodied people. That job belongs to the people themselves. Americans, and especially Christians, must rediscover and uphold these virtues , including the benefits capitalism affords every citizen. It endows both producers and consumers of goods and services with both privileges and expectations, rights and responsibilities.
For more information on capitalism, please take time to watch these four concise yet highly informative videos from Prager University. Slavery was a part of the fabric of life during that era, and it would continue in the United States for nearly a century longer. Even so, even when the nation started, the Founders laid the groundwork for the eventual elimination of slavery. We must understand that it was and is rooted in a Judeo-Christian perspective, one that Christians need to rediscover and apply today.
Cook, , Within the Godhead…we see both unity and diversity. Men and women are both human, yet they are different also go here , here , and here ; there is unity and diversity among them. These truths lead us to an inescapable conclusion. Here we are in no way equating singleness with same-sex marriage. This is especially critical for children, whose first impressions about God come from their parents. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Skip to main content. Evangelical Free Church of America Blog.
Understanding Scripture. Greg Strand. Dockery defines a worldview as follows: it is a comprehensive life system that seeks to answer the basic questions of life.
Our identity is shaped by this worldview. A Christian worldview provides a framework for ethical thinking. A Christian worldview has implications for understanding history. God who has acted in history in past events will also act in history to consummate this age. A Christian worldview offers a new way of thinking, seeing, and doing, based on a new way of being.
A Christian worldview is a coherent way of seeing life, of seeing the world distinct from deism, naturalism, and materialism, existentialism, polytheism, pantheism, mysticism, or deconstructionist postmodernism.
A Christian worldview offers meaning and purpose for all aspects of life. The fact is, Jesus Himself is a figure of history. He was, of course, born in Bethlehem in Judea during the reign of Caesar Augustus, and was put to death by Pontius Pilate, a first century Roman Governor.
And, more importantly, the testimony of his life, death, and resurrection happened to come to us by way of eyewitness accounts 2 Pet. Our worldview shapes how we understand everything we experience. Keep reading this series to learn how to see how the gospel transforms our view of the world.
Our identity is shaped by this worldview. We no longer see ourselves as alienated sinners. A Christian worldview is not escapism but is an energizing motivation for godly and faithful thinking and living in the here and now. It also gives us confidence and hope for the future. Thus, a Christian worldview provides a framework for ethical thinking.
We also recognize that the fullest embodiment of good, love, holiness, grace, and truth is in Jesus Christ see John — A Christian worldview has implications for understanding history. We see that history is not cyclical or random. Human history will climax where it began—on the earth. This truth is another distinctive of Christian thinking, for Christianity is historical at its heart.
In the sense that according to its essential teaching, God has acted decisively in history, revealing himself in specific acts and events. Moreover, God will act to bring history to its providential destiny and planned conclusion. God who has acted in history in past events will also act in history to consummate this age.
We pass to that which is nevertheless certain of occurring because God is behind it and is himself the One who tells us it will come to pass. Developing a Christian worldview is an ever-advancing process for us, a process in which Christian convictions more and more shape our participation in culture.
This disciplined, vigorous, and unending process will help shape how we assess culture and our place in it. Otherwise, culture will shape us and our thinking.
Thus a Christian worldview offers a new way of thinking, seeing, and doing, based on a new way of being. A Christian worldview is a coherent way of seeing life, of seeing the world distinct from deism, naturalism, and materialism, existentialism, polytheism, pantheism, mysticism, or deconstructionist postmodernism.
Such a theistic perspective provides bearings and direction when confronted with New Age spirituality or secularistic and pluralistic approaches to truth and morality. Fear about the future, suffering, disease, and poverty are informed by a Christian worldview grounded in the redemptive work of Christ and the grandeur of God.
Moreover, a Christian worldview offers meaning and purpose for all aspects of life. While many examples could be offered, here are six particular applications where a Christian worldview provides a difference in perspective:. A Christian worldview provides balance and insight for understanding this crucial aspect of twenty-first-century life.
Sexuality has become a major topic for those entering the third millennium. Much confusion exists among Christians and non-Christians. Sexuality is good in the covenant relationship of mutual self-giving marriage.
Sexual intimacy, separated from covenant marriage, in heterosexual or homosexual relations is sinful and has a distorted meaning, a self-serving purpose and negative consequences. The arts and recreation are understood as legitimate and important parts of human creativity and community.
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