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OneLife Church
Christian Worldview: Part 1 - The Right Lens
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http://www.onelifeknox.com/giveBottom Line: The lens I use to see the world will give me lies or life.
Worldview - The framework through which I interpret reality.
Why am I here?
What gives life meaning?
What is truth?
What is right and wrong?
Who am I - really?
Why am I here?
What gives life meaning?
What is truth?
What is right and wrong?
Who am I - really?
1. The world wants to shape my lens.
2. Transformation changes the lens.
3. A biblical lens helps me see truth.
START TALKING:
When have you literally seen something differently because of glasses, a microscope, a camera, or a different person's perspective/story? What surprised you? What changed in how you saw it going forward even though the reality didn't change at all?
When have you literally seen something differently because of glasses, a microscope, a camera, or a different person's perspective/story? What surprised you? What changed in how you saw it going forward even though the reality didn't change at all?
START THINKING:
Read Romans 12:1. What does "living sacrifice" or "living and holy gift" mean? What is it in response to?
Read Romans 12:2. What does the first part of this verse say will be our natural default? What is required to change our lens? What will the result be?
Read Romans 12:1. What does "living sacrifice" or "living and holy gift" mean? What is it in response to?
Read Romans 12:2. What does the first part of this verse say will be our natural default? What is required to change our lens? What will the result be?
START SHARING:
What are examples of lenses, or ways that you see or used to see things, that you inherited or absorbed from culture? This may have been from your family, your own assumptions, culture, or even religion. What changed - or what will change - when you develop a biblical lens?
What are some of the most common worldview assumptions you see that the world shapes in the people around you?
How has your mind been transformed? What are examples of things that have changed as your mind has been transformed by the Spirit and scripture? What has been most revealing to you and even most difficult?
What disciplines or experiences have helped you most to transform your mind and see through a biblical lens? What do you find most easily distracts you from this and reverts your lens back to the worldly lens?
What are examples of lenses, or ways that you see or used to see things, that you inherited or absorbed from culture? This may have been from your family, your own assumptions, culture, or even religion. What changed - or what will change - when you develop a biblical lens?
What are some of the most common worldview assumptions you see that the world shapes in the people around you?
How has your mind been transformed? What are examples of things that have changed as your mind has been transformed by the Spirit and scripture? What has been most revealing to you and even most difficult?
What disciplines or experiences have helped you most to transform your mind and see through a biblical lens? What do you find most easily distracts you from this and reverts your lens back to the worldly lens?
START DOING:
Read Joshua 1:8, Psalm 119:105, and 2 Timothy 3:16-17. What do these verses teach you to do to have the right lens?
Read Romans 12:3-21. What does this passage say will be different because of a transformed mind and correct lens? Make a list of all the ways you will see the world differently according to this passage when you have a biblical lens and renewed mind.
Which one of these most impacts or convicts you, or which one made you think of something current in your life that needs a biblical lens? What will you do this week to see that situation differently?
How will developing a biblical worldview and seeing the world through the right lens make a difference as you live like a missionary and strive to reach your "one" for Jesus?
Read Joshua 1:8, Psalm 119:105, and 2 Timothy 3:16-17. What do these verses teach you to do to have the right lens?
Read Romans 12:3-21. What does this passage say will be different because of a transformed mind and correct lens? Make a list of all the ways you will see the world differently according to this passage when you have a biblical lens and renewed mind.
Which one of these most impacts or convicts you, or which one made you think of something current in your life that needs a biblical lens? What will you do this week to see that situation differently?
How will developing a biblical worldview and seeing the world through the right lens make a difference as you live like a missionary and strive to reach your "one" for Jesus?
START PRAYING:
Pray for what each person shared in the section above. Ask God to continue to work on each of us to see the world how He sees the world. Pray that each of us would trust His word above all else to be the lens by which we filter everything in our lives.
Pray for what each person shared in the section above. Ask God to continue to work on each of us to see the world how He sees the world. Pray that each of us would trust His word above all else to be the lens by which we filter everything in our lives.
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http://www.onelifeknox.com/connect1. Follow Jesus! If you have followed Jesus...
2. Get baptized! If you are following Jesus, then that's all you need to be "ready" to take this step.
3. Volunteer! Don't simply be a consumer, but be part of making a difference in the lives of those who come to OneLife to experience Jesus. There are weekday and Sunday opportunities. Get info about what opportunities there are for you!
4. Join a micro church! You can't have true community sitting in rows with a large crowd. That's not the church - it's an event! Micro churches are small "churches" of 10-12 adults that meet in homes throughout the week to learn together, pray together, serve the community together, and care for each other together.
Get more information about any of the above, send us your prayer requests so we can pray with you, or ask any question we can help you with by filling out the online connection card!