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real value. Our Walk in Our Witness

The Word in Our Witness The Commission of Matthew 28:19 to
Thirdly and fourthly, belief systems at- make disciples of all nations contains the
fifth element of morality in our world-
tempt to make sense of reality and destiny. view. In Acts 17, Paul’s audience did not
The worldview furnished by our God in anticipate encountering God in judgment.
His wholesome Word is that He commu- Resurrection life makes the present life
nicates and acts clearly, consistently and accountable, responsible and consequen-
with a conclusion in view, through His tial. Christian living is thus a regaining,
Messianic purpose and promise. a restoration, a response, a relationship
Paul summarized the completeness of and a rejoicing of knowledge with God
the gospel as being “Christ in you, the forever. “Christ liveth in me” (Gal 2:20) is
hope of glory” (Col 1:27). The reality an existential reality unknown in all forms
and destiny presented is that the Christ of human vision for life. “Doing the right
who was promised has come. His work thing” because of what we believe and in
in death and resurrection has brought Whom we have believed, especially when
deliverance from sin and the hope of a unpopular, may cause our religious neigh-
new humanity with a glorious future. The bors to question and challenge their own
present wonder is His spiritual indwelling worldviews. Our acts of virtue are seen as
in the individual believer. not coming forth out of a monastery but
Missionary H.R. Weber, who labored from a worldview that matters where we
in Indonesia in the 1950s, used four pas- live our lives.
sages (Genesis 3, Exodus 19, Luke 2 and Our walk is guided by a morality
Acts 1) to take his indigenous audience grounded upon the foundations of God’s
from Creation to the Kingdom in the manifestation of Himself, His interest in
book of Revelation, “with Christ as the humanity, His repair of creation from
centre of the whole, including the fall, within reality, and His victorious return
the covenants with Israel, the Church and as King over a restored earth with a des-
the second coming.” The results were not tiny where righteousness reigns through
only sound conversions but also an adop- grace.
tion of the Christian worldview in place What has caused us to admire the Man
of the ones held by their ancestors. Three Christ Jesus, who is “the Lord from heav-
simple principles were derived as a guide en,” is that there is none like Him in what
to mission work: 1) Give a Comprehensive He has done for a sin-cursed world, what
worldview, 2) Choose Continuing and He continues to do for His people, where
Connected Bible stories, and 3) Compare He will bring us, and what He will yet do
and Contrast with cultural myths and to turn around the sad story of creation.
errors. Ultimately, we witness to the only
Bodie Hodge, in World Religions and worldview that will prevail eternally as
Cults: Volume 2, shares that with the Bible we join the chorus of all creation in Rev-
as a solid foundation, false worldviews elation 5:13: “Blessing, and honour, and
can be spotted by their 1) Arbitrary ideas, glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth
2) Inconsistency, 3) Absurdity and 4) In- upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for
adequacy in basic reality. ever and ever.”

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