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    Worldview Conversion and Whole-Life Discipleship
    Worldview Conversion and Whole-Life Discipleship
    Worldview Conversion and Whole-Life Discipleship
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    Worldview Conversion and Whole-Life Discipleship

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    In this series of articles, authors from Grace Communion International address the thinking behind the way people think. Do they look at the world through eyes of Christ, or do they look with Christ excluded from view?

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    PublisherGrace Communion International
    Release dateJun 23, 2020
    ISBN9780463986325
    Worldview Conversion and Whole-Life Discipleship
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    Grace Communion International

    Grace Communion International is a Christian denomination with about 30,000 members, worshiping in about 550 congregations in almost 70 nations and territories. We began in 1934 and our main office is in North Carolina. In the United States, we are members of the National Association of Evangelicals and similar organizations in other nations. We welcome you to visit our website at www.gci.org.

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      Worldview Conversion and Whole-Life Discipleship - Grace Communion International

      Worldview Conversion

      Copyright 2020

      Published by Grace Communion Seminary

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      Table of Contents

      Worldview Conversion, by Greg Williams

      Worldview Conversion: What and Why, by Ted Johnston

      Addressing Idolatry, by Charles Fleming

      The Power of Liturgy, by Ted Johnston

      What Christian Revelation Teaches About Reality and Relationships, by Gary Deddo

      Grace Communion International

      Grace Communion Seminary

      Ambassador College of Christian Ministry

      Worldview Conversion

      By Greg Williams

      Because we humans are prone to wander, those of us called by God to serve within the church as under-shepherds must join Jesus, the Great Shepherd, in protecting his flock from harm (Acts 20:28). This is a vital calling, given the many forces in our day that threaten our members, including the devil’s schemes to undermine a worldview that is solidly Christ-centered. Sadly, an increasing number of Christians view reality (including the Christian faith) through the lens of a worldview that is more secular than it is centered on the heart, mind and ways of Jesus.

      We present here a series of articles that explore the topic of worldview conversion. The focus of the series is how we, through what we refer to as whole-life discipleship, can first help ourselves and then help those in our care develop a worldview that is fully Christ-centered.

      I will introduce the series, looking at what we mean by worldview and providing additional comments. I’ll then hand you over to Ted Johnston’s article for additional details. We’ll then build on this foundation with additional articles.

      What is a worldview?

      In his book Naming the Elephant: Worldview as a Concept, James W. Sire offers this definition:

      A worldview is a commitment, a fundamental orientation of the heart, that can be expressed as a story or in a set of presuppositions (assumptions which may be true or entirely false) which we hold (consciously or subconsciously, consistently or inconsistently) about the basic constitution of reality, and that provides the foundation on which we live and move and have our being. (p. 141)

      Whether we know it or not, we all have a worldview. As disciples of Jesus, it is vital that we embrace and live out of a Christ-centered worldview, then help others do so as well. The articles in this series on worldview and whole-life discipleship are designed to help us do that. It is our goal that we will use this material to help people identify their current worldview, then help them realign their worldview, as needed, more fully with Jesus’ own view of the world—his values, perspectives and commitments. As part of the series, we’ll look at some hot button ethical issues—seeking a Christ-centered response in ways that are redemptive rather than merely confrontational.

      We pray that this series will help inform our teaching and preaching, leading to positive, Christ-centered, Spirit-led change in our own lives and in the lives of the people we are called to disciple in the way of Jesus.

      A shift in worldview

      In his helpful book God, Freedom & Human Dignity, Ron Highfield asks a penetrating question concerning the shift in worldview that has occurred within Western culture:

      How, when and by whom did it come about that nature, family, community, moral law and religion were changed in the Western mind from identity-giving, happiness-producing networks of meaning into their opposites—self-alienating, misery-inducing webs of oppression? (p. 18)

      The dominant worldview in the modern West in our day encourages people (particularly young ones) to cast off family and religious values to embrace an identity that is largely me-centered. This secular worldview, which has become one of the cornerstones of Western culture, is grounded in a form of self-expression that, rather than valuing higher good and right action, has become an end in itself. Highfield continues:

      The modern self asserts, I am irreplaceable, and none can tell me how to realize my own uniqueness or judge my choice of ways of self-expression. I have every right to celebrate my own utterly unique being in ways that I experience as fulfilling. (p. 31)

      The need for grace

      It’s a sad state of affairs, isn’t it? Yet, lest we point a finger of condemnation, let’s remember that all of us

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