Slides: Lesson 1 - Worldview and Story
Sexuality &
God’s Story
Worldview and Story
Goals
Understand how our life stories of singleness, marriage, family, and sexuality are meant to put the Gospel story of Jesus on display
Be aware of how the biblical story should shape singleness, marriage, family, and sexuality
Be equipped to engage topics such as singleness, marriage, the meaning of sex, bioethics, and LGBT+ concerns
Defining Worldview
Definition: “The comprehensive framework of one’s basic beliefs about things.” - Al Wolters, Creation Regained, p.2
Prescientific/pretheoretical
Worldview: Belief and action
Cognition vs. action: “Belief is a decisive factor in our lives even though our professed beliefs may be at variance with the beliefs that are actually operative in our lives” (Wolters, 6).
Confessional vs. convictional beliefs