1. Evaluating your Personal World View © John Stevenson, 2008

2. Session Objectives To examine your own personal worldview To consider the components and implications of a biblical worldview

3. Your Personal World View Upbringing Education Church Events Books Experiences is influenced by a number of factors… What have been the most significant factors in shaping your own world view?

4. What Factors have been involved in determining your political outlook? Upbringing Self-interest What does the Bible have to say about government?

5. How would you respond to this question: Did God create AIDS?

6. Genesis 3 The Fall Are there signs of Gods grace even in the account of the Fall? Why does evil often look good to us, even exciting? Why do we find the story of a bank robbery more interesting than the story of a bank deposit?

7. The Cross How is your view of life affected by your understanding of the incarnation, the cross, and the resurrection?

8. A Christian World View

9. Four Basic Questions What is real? –What is the nature of ultimate reality? –Is this universe all there is? –Is this physical universe an illusion? –Who or what is God? Timothy Phillips & Sennis Okholm Page 27

10. Four Basic Questions What is real? –What is the nature of ultimate reality? –Is this universe all there is? –Is this physical universe an illusion? –Who or what is God? In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

11. Four Basic Questions What is real? Who am I? –What does it mean to be human? –What is the purpose of human existence? –What are we doing here? Timothy Phillips & Sennis Okholm Page 27

12. Genesis 1:26-27 Then God said, Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. 27 God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

13. Four Basic Questions What is real? Who am I? What is wrong? –What is the origin of suffering and evil? –Why do we die? –What keeps humans from utopia? Timothy Phillips & Sennis Okholm Page 27

14. What is Wrong? The very idea that something is wrong is a Christian ideal. This world is not the way it is supposed to be. Sin entered the world and death by sin (Romans 5:12)

15. Four Basic Questions What is real? Who am I? What is wrong? What is the solution? –How does one remedy this problem? –How does one attain salvation? Timothy Phillips & Sennis Okholm Page 27

16. Four Basic Questions What is real? Who am I? What is wrong? What is the solution? –How does one remedy this problem? –How does one attain salvation?

17. What would be your reply to an unchurched friend asking you, What is the Bible all about?

18. Major Themes in the Bible Creation Fall Redemption

19. Major Themes in the Bible How do these categories help to organize the stuff of the Bible?

20. Matthew 6:24 No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth. How is ones world view impacted if he attempts to serve two masters?

21. What is the impact of taking a double vision approach to life?