What is a life vision? Another way of saying it is worldview. What is your worldview? I picked life vision because I think the term worldview is so over used or misunderstood, that I wanted to make you think about it.
So what is a worldview or life vision or whatever you call it? Simply put it is the way you look at the world, or the way you see life.
I was reading and viewing a DVD study in Rick Warren’s magazine Purpose Driven Connection at www.purposedrivenconnection.com. In the most recent issue there is a 6 week DVD based study featuring a discussion between Rick Warren and Chuck Colson about worldview. Rick asks Chuck to answer what is a worldview. He said it is framed by your answer to four basic questions.
- Where did all of this come from? The origin question.
- How did it all get so messed up? The problem of evil.
- How do we get out of this mess? The salvation question.
- What do we do now? Our purpose question.
As I was thinking about that I shared this with someone that I am witnessing to. We discussed it and I said, you have to determine your answer to those questions. We agreed that God created it all and that people messed it up with bad choices. The questions is, how do we fix it? That was his issue. But he is a young person so he is also dealing with the issue of knowing his purpose. But the truth is, unless you answer the first three questions, it doesn’t make sense to even try to intelligently answer the fourth. A lot of people are fulfilling purposes without even knowing why.
So if you are talking to people and want to share with them your worldview, ask them those four questions. Knowing where they are struggling is the key to knowing where to take them.
