Worldviews

What your child needs to know depends on your world view. Let me repeat, your world view (not the state's world view, not your mother-in-law's view, not the neighbor's view
and not Susie's view from your support groups). Everyone has a world view. You may not have written it down, but you have one. Your world view is determines your values. It sorts out what is important from what is not. Answering the four questions below tell your world view. 

1.  Who am I?

2.  Where am I?

3. What is wrong? (Why am I often frustrated, disappointed and defeated?)

4. How can it be fixed? (How can I solve my problems and satisfy my
   desires?)
   
   The answers will vary depending upon who you ask but the basic answers are: 

Those who do not believe in God, have to find another way to explain the universe. 

Humanism, for example, is a worldview which states that the universe is centered upon man and his achievements. Marxism is a worldview which believes in the inevitability of class struggle based on economic factors. 

Major world religions are based upon worldviews. Hinduism is a worldview based upon
many deities, and endless life-death cycle and inevitability of human suffering. Islam, on the other hand, is a religion of martyrdom, conquests by force, and police state modesty. Thus to understand any of these movements and religions, we must understand the worldview they are founded upon.

A secular world view does not value human life. If all a child has ever been taught is that we are all accidents; it is really so unusual that there are so many abortions,
murders and suicides. Lets look at the answers from a Christian world view. What value does a Christian place on life? On education? On material gain?

The public system teaches for a secular world view. Children are taught that the answer to all life's problems are money and education. Much of this philosophy has crept into the church. So much so, that many Christians value education to the extent that they choose a "good education" over God's command to "be not unequally yoked." Or they choose curriculum because it is equivalent to the academic requirements of a traditional education.

Developing a Christian worldview is of extreme importance in order to advance Christ's
kingdom as false systems collapse under their own corrupted weight. One reason for the decline of Christianity in western culture is the lack of biblically based worldview. Instead the cultural worldview of materialism, selfishness and greed has become the predominant vision.

In education, a Christian world view seeks knowledge, wisdom and understand as outlined by God's Word. A secular world view focus on SAT testing and rote memorization with no thought to character, morals and values. 

Thus if we were to properly understand the role of worldview, we would understand it as a set of rules that reside at the very core of our being. If our set of values is earthly, carnal and debased, then our actions will reflect such rot. However, a change in this set of values will bring a change in our actions. If we are taught a biblically based worldview, radical change will take place. Believers the world over will experience revival and evangelism will become more effective than ever.

For more on the subject of worldview read Seven Principles of a Christian Worldview

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