Worldview, It's About Commanding the High Ground

World view is about seeing life as God see's it, every little part, and then seeing how they all fit together under his Lordship. Our culture has trained us to see things piecemeal, as fragments, compartmentalized. My experience as a believer was to try and address an area, a problem, but the whole time I was not understanding how many other areas of life were connected to it. Because I did not address the supporting areas I usually had to keep going around the mountain another time.

Example: my wife and I could give story upon story about how we tried to fix our marrage/family issues one problem at a time. It was only after we stood back and started from the ground up by embracing God's design and order for the family and home, that what used to be problems just started to fade away. Now our marrage and family is just so much richer. This too is part of the gospel,the good news. We had to go and read books on how historically Christian families have functioned. We had no examples within the church to guide us. When we read our Bibles we interpreted them from a modern context. Not the context they were written in. Today Doug posted this column, here are some parts of it ....


By Doug Wilson, AdulteryTopic: Old Table Talk Articles

...One writer astutely observed that America has turned into a nation of large toddlers. We all, from successful businessmen on down, dress as though we were little ones. The uniforms of little kids can be seen everywhere. We see baseball caps, baggy pants (big enough to hide the diapers), oversized sneakers, untied (haven’t learned that yet), and then, in the weirdest twist of all, we see that everyone appears to be carrying around bottles with giant nipples. All we need is for some bright engineer in Detroit to figure out a way to make our cars look like strollers, and for someone else to figure out how to market adult binkies.

We as a nation are not used to any instruction or discipline on how to control our passions and desires, in any area. We are pampered as toddlers, indulged as schoolchildren, spoiled as teenagers, and by the time we come to young adulthood, we are floating in a small lake of material prosperity and assorted stock options. When, where, in what area, have we ever been told, No? If such an event were to occur, as rare as a slow comet, we take it ill...

What is needed is a return to discipline, in every area. This should not be problematic for Christians, because this is simply a call for renewed discipleship. Disciples, by definition, are those under discipline. But this call is problematic for the modern Church because discipleship is not sufficiently sensitive to market forces. It says no to those who show up at the door expecting to be told yes. This is what lies behind the massive shift to ecclesiastical marketing, and seeker-sensitive churches...

..If any man would be my disciple, Jesus did not say, let him affirm himself, and know that God don’t make no junk. Let him learn to feel good about himself. Let him learn to view heaven as a giant vending machine...

This is just another way of saying that everything is connected. Piecemeal reformations will only exasperate us in their futility. We are overwhelmed by our adversaries, but this is because they are still too small. Goliath needs to be a giant before the Bible story can be reenacted. Because we want to "divide and conquer" we continue to ignore the real nature of the war, and we continue to suffer one tactical defeat after another. We want to face fifteen little goliaths, one at a time. This is why each little goliath takes us down. We need to recover the faith of David, and pray that the whole system of unbelief, the massive resistance to discipleship, will be seen all at once, all together, lying on the ground with a stone in its forehead...


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