Living the

Biblical
Worldview
Douglas S. Huffman
Encouragement Inc.
Est. 1986

DISCUSSION QUESTION
If your worldview is
your view of the world (!),
what events and/or people have had
the biggest influence on your
particular worldview?

LIVING THE BIBLICAL WORLDVIEW

1. What is a worldview?
2. What is the biblical worldview?
3. How do I maintain a grip on the
biblical worldview?
4. How do I live by the biblical
worldview in a culture that
does not share that worldview?

WHAT IS A WORLDVIEW?

A worldview is a conceptual framework that

allows us to make sense of reality.
Randy W. Nelson

WORLDVIEW & INTEGRATION:

Integration What we know and believe
affects what we love and those things affect
how we behave.

WORLDVIEW & INTEGRATION:

Worldview A persons core beliefs and
commitments that provide his/her view of
reality and act as guide for life in reality.

WHAT IS A WORLDVIEW?
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Everyone has a worldview.

A vision of life and a vision for life.
Worldviews are shared by groups of people.
Culture (& sub-culture) portrays a worldview.
Worldviews are founded upon core beliefs
or ultimate faith commitments.

WHAT IS A WORLDVIEW?
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5. Where does truth and knowledge come from?

WHAT IS A WORLDVIEW?
Everyone has a worldview, i.e. conducts her
life by CORE BELIEFS in FIVE AREAS:
1. TheologyWhat is God like?
2. AnthropologyWhat does it mean to be human?
3. EthicsWhat is right and wrong?
4. SoteriologyWhat is the answer to our problems?
5. EpistemologyWhere does truth and knowledge
come from?

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Which worldview helps us see most clearly

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DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
1. What are the implications of consciously
evaluating your worldview?
2. How does the concept of worldview fit with
the description of conversion in Eph. 4:1724?

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
1. What are the implications of consciously
17 Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no
evaluating your worldview?

longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds.

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due to their hardness of heart. 19 They have become
callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy
to practice every kind of impurity. 20 But that is not the way
you learned Christ! 21 assuming that you have heard
about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus,
22 to put off your old self, which belongs to your former
manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires,
23 and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, 24 and to
put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in
true righteousness and holiness. (Eph. 4:1724 ESV)