Trainer Name
Ministry

Introduction
Modern Stories
What is a worldview?
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The Worldview Story
Ultimate
Reality
Man Nature
Animism
History
Biblical
Theism
Secularism
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Romans 12:2
“Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is – his good, pleasing and perfect will.”
How does this passage relate to what we have been talking about?
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Ideas Have Consequences
Fruit = Consequences
Branches = Behavior
Trunk = Values
Roots = Belief System
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The Spread of Ideas
Horizontal
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Ideas travel around the globe, from one area to another.
Temporal
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Ideas pass to future generations.
Vertical
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Ideas diffuse into cultures through classes of people.
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Ideas Spread Through Culture
The Intellectuals
(religion, philosophy)
The Balladeers
(popular music, the arts)
The Professionals
(law, politics, economics)
The Common
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Andrew Fletcher
Let me make the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws.
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“Send in the artists, mystics, and clowns.
Their fertile imaginations pours the new wine of the gospel into fresh wineskins
(Luke 5:38). With fresh language, poetic vision, and striking symbols, they express God’s inexpressible Word in artistic forms that are charged with the power of God, engaging our minds and stirring our hearts as they flare and flame.”
Brennan Manning
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Transforming Society
Rebuilt
Societies
Reformed
Cultures
Repentant Souls and Regenerated
Lives
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The Role of the Church in
Society
John 17:15-19
What did Jesus say is to be the relationship between the church and the world?

Disengaged
In the Church and Out of the World
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Conformed
Indistinguishable from the World
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Impacting the World
In the World but not of the World
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Gathered and Scattered
Gathered for worship & equipping
Scattered for service & discipling the nations

Kingdom Culture
Lived and Proclaimed
Biblical Metaphysic
TRUTH
Kingdom
Culture
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The Great Commission
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GEOGRAPHIC
– Jerusalem  Judea  Samaria  Ends of
Earth (Acts 1:8)
DEMOGRAPHIC
– All Nations or “people groups”
(Matthew 28:19)
KTIZOGRAPHIC *
– All Creation (Mark 16:15)
* KTIZOGRAPHIC is a construct of two Greek words: KTIZO, the root for KTISIS, meaning creature or creation and GRAPHO, meaning to describe or delineate.
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Three Dimensions of the Great Commission
GEO GRAPHIC
Thy kingdom come,
Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven
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Kingdom Culture and the Great Commission
BEAUTY
GEO GRAPHIC
Thy kingdom come,
Thy will be done
Kingdom
Culture
Progress (Isaiah 9:7): “of the increase of his government… there will be no end”
Time (Matt. 28:20b)
“until the end of the age” on earth as it is in heaven
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The Loss of a Biblical
Worldview
Why are we no longer telling the whole story of God’s Big Agenda?
How have we lost the understanding of the biblical nature of the church?

Biblical Theism
G OD
Creation
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Biblical Worldview
G OD is transcendent standing outside of creation
G OD is immanent in His creation
Being 
History 
 Incarnation
Indwelling HS 
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Coram Deo: before the face of God
G OD
Faith
Science
Business
Missions
Justice
Devotional
Life
Art
Bread
Reason
Theology
Ethics
Politics
Evangelism
Nature
Community
Service
Gospel
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Deism
G OD
Cosmos
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Secularism
?
Nature
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Coram Deo: before the face of God
G OD
Faith
Science
Business
Missions
Justice
Art / Music
Devotional
Life
Bread
Reason
Theology
Ethics
Politics
Evangelism
Nature
Community
Service
Gospel
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Don’t Hide!
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Church Divided
Secularism
Accommodation
“Liberals”
Old-Line
Denominations
Church
Reaction
“ Fundamentalists”
Evangelicals
Pentecostals
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The Greek Dichotomy
Higher more important
Lower less important
GRACE
NATURE
SPIRITUAL
(sacred)
PHYSICAL
(secular)
Faith
Theology
Ethics
Missions
Devotional Life
Gospel
Reason
Science
Business/economics
Politics
Art/music
Physical ministry
Bread
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Evangelical Gnosticism
Sacred
G OD
Secular
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Evangelical Gnosticism
Spiritual
Moral
*Faith
*Grace
*Missions
*Ethics
Sacred
* Theology
* Evangelism
* Discipleship
* Devotions
Spiritual Disciplines
Spiritual Warfare
Sundays
G OD
Natural
Physical
* Works
* Reason
* Business
* Politics
Secular
* Science
* Economics
* Mass Media
* The Arts
‘ Physical’ Ministries
Social Justice
Weekdays
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At Least . . .
Three Things Lost
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Biblical Mind
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Great Commission
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Samaritan Strategy
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Application
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Take time to reflect on some examples of a divided worldview in your life.
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How is it manifested personally or in your family, your work or your ministry?
Prayerfully ask the Lord to reveal one practical step you can take to live Coram Deo in this area.
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Trainer Name
Ministry

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What is a worldview? How does it work?
What are three ways ideas can spread?
What are three primary elements of kingdom culture?
How has the adoption of a dualistic way of thinking impacted your life?
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