Wrapping Up Series on Christian World View

Ephesians 2:1-10, Colossians 1:15-23

The Christian World View gives answers to the big questions.  Examples will follow later.  Because of the preeminence of Christ, you can't have a Christian World View without Christ.  Knowing Christ comes through a changed heart.  The Bible is God word.  We don't worship the book, is it the message we follow.

Answers to big questions:

• There is a God

• God created the Universe.  God also created man and created him in His image

• Mankind has fallen and therefore we are messed up.  We have a predisposition to sin.

• The Bible is God's word.  We worship the message, not the book.

• Jesus Christ is God's son.  He revealed who God is.  Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. God raised him from the dead.  He has died for our sins.  Salvation is available if we accept him as our Lord and Savior.

• There are only two destinies after you die.  It is heaven or hell.

Follow up to the big questions:

• How we view the big questions effects how we relate to other Christians and how we relate to the world.

• The big question are non-negotiable.  To reject anyone of these is what the Apostle Paul calls another gospel,  We must be aware of heresy.

• Other groups that have the same core values and agree on the the big questions should be accepted as part of the invisible church.  We should not avoid fellowship with them.

• To say we follow a man like Menno or Luther or any other man does not represent a mature Christian.

• Differences on sub-issues such as form of baptism should not be divisive.

• Our witness to the world is to show sacrificial love.  This is how we connect to the world.

"A Christianity that believers it needs a political party, president, legislation, and a
nation to ensure its survival is a Christianity that actually dethrones Jesus as savior
of the nations and advances a belief that Jesus needs nation to be his savior."

by: Benjamin Cremer