A lifelong friend, who is a professor at state university, asks each new group of students a question: “What is your worldview , and how does your worldview explain origin, meaning, morality and destiny in a coherent way that corresponds to reality?” (Ravi Zacharias). Each student has to write a paper explaining and defending their worldview. The teacher is not teaching a philosophy course, rather a horse science course. The professor goes on to explain that one’s worldview effects everything you do, even the treatment and care of horses.
The online Free Dictionary describes a worldview as “The overall perspective from which one sees and interprets the world.” The thought of sharing your worldview sounds intimidating. Let me restate it as author Frank Turek does as the 5 most important life questions: “1) Where did we come from?, 2) Who are we?, 3) Why are we here?, 4) How should we live?, 5) Where are we going?”
Whatever you believe is the answers to those 5 questions shapes everything you do. To say that you don’t have a worldview is your worldview! A purposeless worldview is a dangerous one; leaving you without a destination, subject to the whims of others.
There is a way to get to where we want to go. What you believe will determine how and if you get there. The onus is on us to discover His worldview, because God’s worldview is the only one that counts. He says that those who seek will find, so ask and you will get the answers to the 5 most important questions about life.
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