First Friday

Having a Biblical Worldview

Worldview A comprehensive perspective that encompasses an individual’s beliefs and values about the world and life.

In other words, its how you see or look at the world.

Psalm 39:4 “ “Lord, make me to know my end, And what is the measure of my days, That I may know how frail I am.”

PHILOSOPHY (φιλοσοφία, philosophia). Literally means “the love of wisdom.”Perceptions of how the world works. Attempts to answer if and what general principles order everything in existence.

Some might say a worldview is part of our operating philosophy, or you might say philosophy is how we express how we see things via our worldview.

both of these express how we interact with how we think about these things. Ecclesiastes 7:25 “ I applied my heart to know, To search and seek out wisdom and the reason of things, To know the wickedness of folly, Even of foolishness and madness.”

Colossians 2:8–10 “ Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ. 9 For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily; 10 and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power.”

Culture The set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes a group or society, influencing behavior and traditions.

Culture is about the relationships we form with one another and how we interact with it. Some would say that Culture is the set of shared understandings, beliefs, and values that reside in people’s minds. At one level the culture and cognition rubric is overly discriminatory: culture is a cognitive phenomenon, and cognition describes culture as a guide for human behavior. But like we saw from Colossians, we don’t let that control.

All this and more together is how we observe truth, how we see everything, and regard how we do everything in life.

1 Peter 3:15–17 “ But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear; 16 having a good conscience, that when they defame you as evildoers, those who revile your good conduct in Christ may be ashamed. 17 For it is better, if it is the will of God, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil.”

1 Peter 3:15–17 “ But set Christ apart as Lord in your hearts and always be ready to give an answer to anyone who asks about the hope you possess. 16 Yet do it with courtesy and respect, keeping a good conscience, so that those who slander your good conduct in Christ may be put to shame when they accuse you. 17 For it is better to suffer for doing good, if God wills it, than for doing evil.”

1 Peter 3:15–17 “ Instead, you must worship Christ as Lord of your life. And if someone asks about your hope as a believer, always be ready to explain it. 16 But do this in a gentle and respectful way. Keep your conscience clear. Then if people speak against you, they will be ashamed when they see what a good life you live because you belong to Christ. 17 Remember, it is better to suffer for doing good, if that is what God wants, than to suffer for doing wrong!”

So now, lets sharpen one another and find topics to discuss now and or for the next time we meet.

Book Review -

I want to do a book review together for

Why Does God Allow Evil By Clay Jones

Some Random Quotes:

A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to

resist temptation know how strong it is... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in. We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it: and Christ, because He was the only man who never yielded to temptation, is also the only man who knows to the full what temptation

means — the only complete realist.

CS Lewis