There is probably no more fundamental aspect of a person’s life, outlook, and opinion base than his weltanschauung – his worldview.
For the Christian, it is vital that your worldview be based on – indeed spring from – the Bible. If your view of the world – your opinion-former, your interpretive framework for reality – is not informed by, founded upon, and focused around the Bible, you will rapidly be lost in this world. God gave us the instruction manual for life – it is to our personal detriment if we ignore what He has told us about life.
{{Charles Coulson}}’s excellent book {{How Now Shall We Live}} (coauthored with {{Nancy Pearcy}}) was the first place I ran across the term worldview. But it is a term whose time is NOW for its applicability.
I plead with everyone to study the Bible – go deep, go long, and drink it all in. Read multiple good versions. Compare your translations. Dive into the original text with tools like {{Vine’s Expository Dictionary}} and {{Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance}}. Learn everything you can. Let the Word infuse your life and focus your thinking.
The good news of the gospel gives peace – not a trite, fleeting peace, but true, lasting peace: it is the only way to know God, and only by knowing Him can you have eternal security.
So – what’s your Weltanschauung?