Total Truth (Study Guide Edition – Trade Paperback)

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After becoming a Christian, I returned to L’Abri for a longer period of study, and discovered how liberating a worldview approach can be. There is no need to avoid the secular world and hide out behind the walls of an evangelical subculture; instead, Christians can appreciate works of art and culture as products of human creativity expressing the image of God. On the other hand, there is no danger of being naive or uncritical about false and dangerous messages embedded in secular culture, because a worldview gives the conceptual tools needed to analyze and critique them. Believers can apply a distinctively biblical perspective every time they pick up the newspaper, watch a movie, or read a book.

Understanding this profound truth also helps prevent a triumphalistic attitude. I have encountered people who are averse to the concept of Christian worldview because they think it means trying to take over the world and impose our beliefs, top down, on everyone else. This is when we must remind them (and ourselves) that God’s means of salvation was, after all, the cross. He came in humility and human weakness, even submitting to death at the hands of sinners. In