Every per\u00adson forms a world\u00adview with which he or she inter\u00adprets the world. Often this is uncon\u00adscious\u00adly adopted by the sur\u00adroun\u00adding world. Our world\u00adview influen\u00adces our inter\u00adpre\u00adta\u00adti\u00adon of the Bible and how we live out our faith life. God wants to chan\u00adge our thin\u00adking so that we ali\u00adgn our\u00adsel\u00adves with Him and do not beco\u00adme a pro\u00adduct of this world. Am I awa\u00adre of how I think and form my opinions?<\/p>\n
Ori\u00aden\u00adta\u00adti\u00adon and goal \tHave you alre\u00ada\u00addy thought about the dif\u00adfe\u00adrent world views? Every per\u00adson forms a world view with which they inter\u00adpret the world. This is often uncon\u00adscious\u00adly adopted from the world around us. Our world\u00adview influen\u00adces our inter\u00adpre\u00adta\u00adti\u00adon of the Bible and how we live out our life of faith. God wants to chan\u00adge our thin\u00adking so that we ali\u00adgn our\u00adsel\u00adves with Him and do not beco\u00adme a pro\u00adduct of this world. Am I aware\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":7382,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","wpfc_preacher":[73],"wpfc_sermon_series":[90],"wpfc_sermon_topics":[],"wpfc_bible_book":[],"wpfc_service_type":[12],"class_list":{"0":"wpfc_preacher-daniel-bieri","1":"wpfc_sermon_series-heilig-heilig-heilig","2":"wpfc-sermon-single","3":"post-7366","4":"wpfc_sermon","5":"type-wpfc_sermon","6":"status-publish","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"hentry","11":"wpfc_service_type-gottesdienst"},"acf":[],"sermons_blog_filters_topics":"\t\t\t\t
\nMy first para\u00adgli\u00adding flight was so exci\u00adting that I was fasci\u00adna\u00adted by this sport for years. My boy\u00adfri\u00adend at the time and I took every oppor\u00adtu\u00adni\u00adty to go for a flight. So it was on a fog\u00adgy Satur\u00adday, no one was thin\u00adking of fly\u00ading, but we could\u00adn\u2019t resist and went to the Engel\u00adberg val\u00adley. The\u00adre was good visi\u00adbi\u00adli\u00adty at the landing site and up to about 200 met\u00adres abo\u00adve it, but fur\u00adther up the\u00adre was a den\u00adse blan\u00adket of fog. The plan was to take off any\u00adway and to fol\u00adlow my fri\u00adend who had a GPS<\/span>. We took off, but within seconds he dis\u00adap\u00adpeared into the fog and I found mys\u00adelf dis\u00adori\u00aden\u00adted in the den\u00adse fog. Long minu\u00adtes fol\u00adlo\u00adwed with the fear of fly\u00ading into the moun\u00adta\u00adin\u00adsi\u00adde. With this lay\u00ader of fog, the\u00adre would not have been enough time to react and avo\u00adid the slo\u00adpe. Sud\u00adden\u00adly I got scared and rea\u00adli\u00adsed that I was fly\u00ading straight into the slo\u00adpe. No, that can\u2019t be true. I lear\u00adned some\u00adthing from it: Being able to ori\u00aden\u00adta\u00adte yours\u00adelf well is vital.
\nIf we do not reco\u00adg\u00adni\u00adse our sur\u00adroun\u00addings, we can\u00adnot ori\u00adent our\u00adsel\u00adves. And if we have no ori\u00aden\u00adta\u00adti\u00adon, we will never arri\u00adve at our desti\u00adna\u00adti\u00adon. In life, ori\u00aden\u00adta\u00adti\u00adon is the be-all and end-all. Take ori\u00aden\u00adtee\u00adring, for exam\u00adp\u00adle. Run\u00adners don\u2019t just run off and expect to arri\u00adve at their desti\u00adna\u00adti\u00adon. No, they first ori\u00adent them\u00adsel\u00adves, deter\u00admi\u00adne whe\u00adre they are. Only then do they focus on the goal and how to get the\u00adre. They have to reo\u00adri\u00adent them\u00adsel\u00adves along the enti\u00adre rou\u00adte in order to reach their desti\u00adna\u00adti\u00adon as quick\u00adly as possible.
\nWhat is stan\u00addard in ori\u00aden\u00adtee\u00adring should also be the rule in our life of faith. No mat\u00adter how noble our goal may be, if we do not ori\u00aden\u00adta\u00adte our\u00adsel\u00adves, we will not reach it. If we want to live holy lives that are plea\u00adsing to God, we have to deal intellec\u00adtual\u00adly with the time in which we find our\u00adsel\u00adves. Jesus said: \u00abAnd when the south wind blows, you say, \u00abIt\u2019s get\u00adting hot. And that hap\u00adpens too. You hypo\u00adcri\u00adtes! You obser\u00adve the earth and the sky and can the\u00adr\u00ade\u00adfo\u00adre judge the wea\u00adther. So why can\u2019t you judge the pre\u00adsent time?\u00bb (Luke 12:55\u201356 NRSV<\/span>). Jesus meant that they knew about the wea\u00adther but could not reco\u00adg\u00adni\u00adse the spi\u00adri\u00adtu\u00adal time. In Romans we read: \u00abDo not con\u00adform to the stan\u00addards of this world, but let God chan\u00adge you so that your who\u00adle mind is reo\u00adri\u00aden\u00adta\u00adted. Only then will you be able to judge what God\u2019s will is, what is good and per\u00adfect and what plea\u00adses him\u00bb (Romans 12:2 HFA<\/span>).
\nWe are not to ori\u00aden\u00adta\u00adte our\u00adsel\u00adves by the stan\u00addards of the world, but to reo\u00adri\u00aden\u00adta\u00adte our thin\u00adking. To do this, we need to under\u00adstand what the world\u2019s stan\u00addards are. Which is the lea\u00adding worldview?
\nA world\u00adview is like com\u00adpu\u00adter software
\nA world\u00adview is the frame\u00adwork of thought with which we inter\u00adpret the world around us. We all have a world\u00adview, we need it to be able to inter\u00adpret the world around us. Our world\u00adview has a gre\u00adat influence on our faith. Many times we use our world\u00adview to inter\u00adpret the Bible. Let us brief\u00adly look at two of the\u00adse worldviews.
\nThe Modern Age
\nThe twen\u00adtieth cen\u00adtu\u00adry was shaped by the modern world\u00adview. In this view, sci\u00adence is the cent\u00adre. Truth is abso\u00adlu\u00adte and comes from sci\u00adence. What can\u00adnot be mea\u00adsu\u00adred does not exist (God is dead). Faith and fee\u00adlings do not count. Moder\u00adni\u00adty feels mea\u00adsu\u00adring, cold and imper\u00adso\u00adnal. At the end of the 20th cen\u00adtu\u00adry, a new world\u00adview over\u00adtook moder\u00adni\u00adty: postmodernism.
\nThe Postmodern
\nPost\u00admo\u00addern thought has its ori\u00adg\u00adins in sci\u00adence, in Einstein\u2019s theo\u00adry of rela\u00adti\u00advi\u00adty. Albert found that time depends on the speed at which an object is moving. Time is not abso\u00adlu\u00adte, but rela\u00adti\u00adve, depen\u00adding on loca\u00adti\u00adon. Not only Ein\u00adstein, but many peo\u00adp\u00adle rea\u00adli\u00adsed that not ever\u00ady\u00adthing is line\u00adar, but rela\u00adti\u00adve. Over time, this dis\u00adco\u00advery see\u00adped into our world\u00adview. Truth beca\u00adme rela\u00adti\u00adve, per\u00adso\u00adnal and depen\u00addent on fee\u00adlings. The indi\u00advi\u00addu\u00adal per\u00adson is the cent\u00adre, their fee\u00adlings deter\u00admi\u00adne truth. Post\u00admo\u00adder\u00adnism feels warm and personal.
\nThe\u00adre are a few fea\u00adture films that illus\u00adtra\u00adte this shift into post\u00admo\u00adder\u00adni\u00adty. Tita\u00adnic, the 1997 clas\u00adsic, embo\u00addies for me the depar\u00adtu\u00adre from moder\u00adni\u00adty and the dawn of post\u00admo\u00adder\u00adni\u00adty. Rose, the young prot\u00adago\u00adnist, is at first torn bet\u00adween the two worlds. In the end, she says good\u00adbye to her mother\u2019s ali\u00aden\u00adati\u00adon and the ratio\u00adnal decis\u00adi\u00adon to choo\u00adse her rich hus\u00adband, Cal, to whom she is enga\u00adged. She does\u00adn\u2019t care about class socie\u00adty and lets her fee\u00adlings alo\u00adne gui\u00adde her. Jack and Rose live \u00abtrue\u00bb love and deci\u00adde for each other. But a stro\u00adke of fate sepa\u00adra\u00adtes them. In the film, the Tita\u00adnic sinks, and with it the cold, imper\u00adso\u00adnal world\u00adview of moder\u00adni\u00adty. Most view\u00aders agree with Rose\u2019s per\u00adspec\u00adti\u00adve; the new ideo\u00adlo\u00adgy of emo\u00adtio\u00adnal indi\u00advi\u00addua\u00adlism has triumphed.
\nOur world\u00adview influen\u00adces our faith and inter\u00adpre\u00adta\u00adti\u00adon of the Bible. In modern times, belie\u00advers were more ori\u00aden\u00adted towards the Apost\u00adle Paul and his clear ins\u00adtruc\u00adtions on how to behave as a Chris\u00adti\u00adan. To behave cor\u00adrect\u00adly, holy so to speak, was extre\u00adme\u00adly important, the\u00adre was a ten\u00adden\u00adcy towards lega\u00adlism. In moder\u00adni\u00adty, the lea\u00adder explains to the small group how to under\u00adstand the Bible pas\u00adsa\u00adges cor\u00adrect\u00adly. This has chan\u00adged in the post\u00admo\u00addern era.
\nIt is more per\u00adso\u00adnal and the opi\u00adni\u00adon of each indi\u00advi\u00addu\u00adal is asked for. The focus is not on lega\u00adli\u00adties, but on God\u2019s love.
\nThis year we have alre\u00ada\u00addy heard a lot about God\u2019s holi\u00adne\u00adss. Two ser\u00admons were about God\u2019s holy love, a very dif\u00adfi\u00adcult sub\u00adject. Many peo\u00adp\u00adle, main\u00adly tho\u00adse who have grown up in the modern world\u00adview, find it dif\u00adfi\u00adcult to ima\u00adgi\u00adne that the dan\u00adge\u00adrous holy God can also be a loving God. Peo\u00adp\u00adle often try to balan\u00adce the holi\u00adne\u00adss of God and love so as not to fall into one extreme.
\nIn the post\u00admo\u00addern world\u00adview, it is easier to recon\u00adci\u00adle holi\u00adne\u00adss and love. In this ideo\u00adlo\u00adgy, ever\u00ady\u00adthing is alre\u00ada\u00addy rela\u00adti\u00adve, many things fit in. But the under\u00adstan\u00adding of the holi\u00adne\u00adss of God is some\u00adti\u00admes not the\u00adre at all. Black and white don\u2019t real\u00adly exist, ever\u00ady\u00adthing is a bit mixed, like in the Yin Yang sign.
\nFur\u00adther\u00admo\u00adre, it is dif\u00adfi\u00adcult to grasp bibli\u00adcal love. We read in Gala\u00adti\u00adans: \u00abFor the who\u00adle law is sum\u00admed up in a sin\u00adgle word, in the com\u00admandment, \u00abYou shall love your neigh\u00adbour as yours\u00adelf\u00bb \u00bb (Gala\u00adti\u00adans 5:14 NKJV<\/span>). If ever\u00ady\u00adthing is sum\u00adma\u00adri\u00adsed in one word, it is all the more important to under\u00adstand exact\u00adly what is meant by love. It is cer\u00adtain\u00adly not what the Beat\u00adles sang about in the song \u00abAll you need is Love\u00bb. It is also cer\u00adtain that we will not learn from Hol\u00adly\u00adwood what real love or holi\u00adne\u00adss are.
\nApart from world\u00adview, ano\u00adther dif\u00adfi\u00adcul\u00adty in under\u00adstan\u00adding real love is our lan\u00adguage. In Ger\u00adman, as in Eng\u00adlish, we have too few words to express the nuan\u00adces of the dif\u00adfe\u00adrent expres\u00adsi\u00adons of love. The other day I read that in Tamil the\u00adre are more than fif\u00adty dif\u00adfe\u00adrent words for the Eng\u00adlish word love. I found this hard to belie\u00adve and asked a Tamil work col\u00adle\u00adague, but he con\u00adfirm\u00aded what I had read.
\nLast but not least, the bibli\u00adcal world\u00adview. Here, truth comes from God, it is dua\u00adli\u00adstic and abso\u00adlu\u00adte. The\u00adre is right and wrong, light and dark\u00adness. Our faith is per\u00adso\u00adnal, our life has mea\u00adning and pur\u00adpo\u00adse. In the Bible we get to know God who is holy, holy, holy and love is part of his holiness.
\nGod never has to balan\u00adce his love with his holi\u00adne\u00adss. He never has to ask hims\u00adelf whe\u00adther it should be less holi\u00adne\u00adss and more love or vice ver\u00adsa. No, God\u2019s love is always a holy love. God\u2019s holi\u00adne\u00adss is the core and love is a part of it. As we have alre\u00ada\u00addy heard in ser\u00admons about Ezekiel\u2019s visi\u00adon, life flows from the pure holi\u00adne\u00adss of God. \u00abFor the river that gives water to their roots comes from the sanc\u00adtua\u00adry. Month after month they bring forth new and deli\u00adcious fruit, and their lea\u00adves ser\u00adve as a reme\u00addy for the peo\u00adp\u00adle\u00bb (Eze\u00adkiel 47:12 HFA<\/span>).
\nFur\u00adther\u00admo\u00adre, we read that whe\u00adre\u00adver this water flows, it brings life. Life flows from this holi\u00adne\u00adss. Only from the sanc\u00adtua\u00adry comes real life. All good comes from the sanctuary.
\nWhich soft\u00adware have I loaded?
\nI am awa\u00adre that the\u00adse were a lot of thoughts in a short time today. For some the\u00adse thoughts are not\u00adhing new, for others it may be dif\u00adfi\u00adcult to com\u00adpre\u00adhend ever\u00ady\u00adthing. My hope for this ser\u00admon is that we will not sim\u00adply slum\u00adber away, but think about how we form our opi\u00adni\u00adons. I want us to go into this week with a question:
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\nHow well do I ori\u00adent mys\u00adelf in the world? May\u00adbe some are won\u00adde\u00adring how the para\u00adgli\u00adding sto\u00adry ended. What hap\u00adpen\u00aded after the shock of rea\u00adli\u00adsing I was fly\u00ading straight down the slo\u00adpe? One thing in advan\u00adce, I\u2019m stan\u00adding here today, I could\u00adn\u2019t have died like that. All joking asi\u00adde. I yan\u00adked down the con\u00adtrol line of the para\u00adgli\u00adder with force, it tur\u00adned in time and for\u00adt\u00adu\u00adna\u00adte\u00adly wit\u00adhout a stall. I got away with a sca\u00adre. After that I vowed never to get mys\u00adelf into such a situa\u00adti\u00adon again. Ori\u00aden\u00adta\u00adti\u00adon is vital in dai\u00adly life, as it is in faith.
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\nPos\u00adsi\u00adble ques\u00adti\u00adons for the small group
\nRead the Bible text: Romans 12:2<\/p>\n
\n\tAfter a fea\u00adture film, do you think about what the mes\u00adsa\u00adge of the film is?
\n\tDo you know any TV<\/span> series that have a very clear ideo\u00adlo\u00adgy? They may not be obvious at first glan\u00adce. For exam\u00adp\u00adle, the \u00abModern Fami\u00adly\u00bb series, which con\u00adveys a very clear wes\u00adtern, secu\u00adlar and post\u00admo\u00addern message.
\n\tDo you actively think about the dif\u00adfe\u00adrent world views?
\n\tDo peo\u00adp\u00adle choo\u00adse a pro\u00adfes\u00adsi\u00adon or a new church dif\u00adfer\u00adent\u00adly today than fif\u00adty years ago?
\n\tHow does the world\u00adview influence how you under\u00adstand the love and holi\u00adne\u00adss of God?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"