Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind,

so that you may be able to prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.

Romans 12 2. This is resistance and reformation on the Fight, laugh, Feast Network.

In his landmark book, A Christian Manifesto, Francis Schaefer asserted that the basic problem with Christians in this

country over the last two generations or more has been that they have seen things in bits and

pieces instead of totals. The result, he said, has been a kind of hesitant hit or miss approach to virtually all the dire dilemmas

of our day. They have very gradually become disturbed over permissiveness, pornography, the public

schools, the breakdown of the family, and finally abortion, he said. But they have not seen this as a totality, each thing being a part,

a symptom of a much larger problem. Part of the reason for this, he wrote, was they failed to see

that all of this has come about due to a shift in worldview. That is, through a fundamental

change in the overall way that people think about and view the world and life as a whole.

When the subject of worldview comes up, we generally think of philosophy, we think of intellectual

niggling, we think of the brief and blinding oblivion, of ivory tower speculation, of thickly obscure

tomes, and of inscrutable, logical, ideological, or doctrinal complexities.

In fact, though, worldview is as practical as potatoes.

It is less metaphysical than understanding marginal market buying or legislative initiatives.

It's less esoteric than typing a book into a laptop or sending a

digital text across the continent. It is instead as down to earth as tilling the soil for a bed

of petunias. The word itself is a poor English attempt at

translating a German word literally meaning life perspective or a way of seeing. It is simply

the way we look at the world. You have a world view.

I have a world view.

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