Jesus on the Biblical Worldview, Righteousness as the Key to Happiness, and the Difficulty of the Christian life

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AN IDEA FROM ME

If the Bible is God’s truth (and it is), then this is a huge problem: only four percent of our neighbors have a biblical worldview. Most of your neighbors are looking at the world through unbiblical lenses. They are lost without Christ.

As Christians, it’s incumbent on us to conform our minds to God’s. It’s really important to understand there is no neutrality when it comes to worldview. As Romans 12:2 says, we are not to conform to the world, but we are to be transformed by the renewing of our mind. 

We have to learn all that Christ commanded, and learn to obey all that Christ commanded (Matthew 28:19). Jesus prayed that we would be set apart from the world—and what would set us apart would be the truth of God’s word (John 17:17). 

So we have to think through the biblical lens. Look at the world, look at life through the lens of the Bible. That’s what it means to be transformed by God’s word, and not to be conformed to the world. 

—The Christian Worldview Masterclass: https://thethink.institute/masterclass

A QUOTE FROM SOMEBODY ELSE

Whenever you put happiness before righteousness, you will be doomed to misery. That is the great message of the Bible from beginning to end. They alone are truly happy who are seeking to be righteous.

—Dr. David Martyn Lloyd-Jones

SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT

Why does the Christian life sometimes feel so hard?

In Christ, 

Joel Settecase

President, The Think Institute (https://thethink.institute). 

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