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The Impact Of A Christian Worldview In The Family Life

Outline

Introduction

I. The Christian Worldview.

II. Living the Christian Worldview in the Family Life.

Conclusion

Introduction:
Do we have a narrow view of the Christian faith? Many see it as simply a personal relationship with God, a commitment to Sunday services, Wednesday evening Bible study, and a little witnessing.
Those are all good activities—as far as they go. But Christians need to realize that every decision they make reflects their core values. So choices about voting, budgeting, marriage, movies, and heroes are all philosophical issues. Christians who don't have a distinctively Christian philosophy—a view of the world informed by biblical truth—will easily be suckered into living by the world's philosophies.
This is why church pews may be full on Sundays, but secular values dominate our culture. " It is time for Christians to put away childish thinking and boldly confront the world with the message of Christ."

I. The Christian Worldview.
Each of us lives in a physical, economic, and social environment largely not of our making. Even so, we form part of our environment, and in visible and important ways we are formed by it. Furthermore, beyond our immediate surroundings lie urban, national, continental, and international cultures that also shape us. We can no more avoid participating in our surrounding cultures than we can avoid life itself.
It is neither practical nor Christian to attempt to escape the major social structures in which human life occurs. God created the world; He is not its enemy. Christians believe God also ordained the primary orders of life, including family, government, community, human productivity, gainful employment, and commercial exchange. All of us come to know ourselves as participants in such structures even though they differ in particulars from one culture to another. If the creation is good, as the Bible declares, then so are the primary social structures that help make human life possible.
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