We are going to start a new series discussing worldview. That might sound intimidating at first until you realize that everybody has a worldview. From the most sophisticated to the most unsophisticated of people. From the most educated to the most uneducated people. We all have a worldview. Worldview is simply the process by which we examine life. It is the lens by which we process everything, by which we determine what is right and what is wrong, what is true and what is not true. Simply stated: It is how we view life. Everybody has a worldview.
The issue we want to talk about though is a biblical worldview. As Christians we believe that the lens by which we look at life and process everything should be the Word of God. Therefore, the Word of God should determine our worldview as Christians. So, a biblical worldview is what we are going to talk about. What is a biblical worldview? I read about that all the time. I’m always running across something in Christian literature that says we ought to have a biblical worldview or Christians don’t have a biblical worldview. Seldom are we ever told exactly what we are talking about when it comes to biblical worldviews.
We will start today by looking at a survey by Barna. Barna is an organization, like the Gallup Polls, that probably does the most surveying among Christian organizations. They have been doing surveys for a very long time. About every five years going back to the 1990s, they have asked the same question of people concerning worldview and whether or not they believe in a biblical worldview. That has stayed, according to them, fairly constant over time.
