Christian Worldview Concepts

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An Example from the East

Perhaps an analogy for our engagement with modern culture can be found in the Christian dissidents currently operating within communist China. These brave individuals have not attempted to immigrate to the West, to escape an oppressive, heavy-handed government, nor have they completely hidden away in underground communities to avoid scrutiny from the authorities they criticize. They remain vocal and visible, living consistent Christian lives while doing everything possible to bring pressure on the government to change its ways.

Such actions require dissidents to cultivate an alternative community and to prepare that community to accept hardship. Although they continue to work, teach, raise families, and function within the predominant culture, they also nurture an alternative community that is radically counterculture in its values and its message. Rather than looking like the culture, Christians must show in word and deed what a biblical view of the world looks like.

Christians must take this approach toward American culture and become a counter-culture community knit together by biblical values, genuine Christian faith and theological understanding.