Biblical Worldview (BWV) is the key ingredient in our education at Grace Christian School that sets us apart from other schools. Several years ago, our faculty received intensive training for two years. All of our new teachers receive initial and ongoing training. Our Leadership Team is studying Total Truth by Nancy Pearcey. All of this is for the purpose of helping our students to develop their own BWV.

Having a BWV is not synonymous with being a Christian. I have asked many Christians if they have a BWV, and the answer is always in the affirmative. Because we are all children of our culture, we don’t realize that very few people have a BWV, and even those who do are still tainted by Americanism and Modernism.

One of our primary sins is dualism. When I was growing up, only a person who was in ministry was considered to be serving God. Everyone else was living in the secular world. This thinking is a product of dualism, which is the separation of the world into the sacred and the secular.  We go to church on Sundays, and that is for God or the sacred. The rest of the week belongs to us and our vocation, which is the secular. This is what the world has told us, and we believe it. Does God own the cattle on only one hill or does he own all of the cattle on all of the hills? Does He have a claim over us on Sundays only or all days? God created and owns the whole world and all that it is in it; therefore, everything falls under the sacred. Satan lays claim to many parts of the world, but he did not create anything.

But wait, there is secular music and secular education! The proper way to say this is we have secularized music and secularized education. There is a subtle but powerful difference between these sentences. We need to recognize that any product, artform, philosophy, etc. can be used to bring us closer to God. It can also be used to draw us toward darkness and away from God.

The first step to developing a BWV is to recognize that God owns the world and that everything belongs to Him. We need to approach everybody, every decision, and every thought with that understanding. We need to ask ourselves: Will this honor God, or will it draw us toward the darkness?