Personal Worldview Checkup

First Cut - Education

What is man?
1. A biological accident.
2. A special creature made by God.
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Should instruction be exclusively based upon absolute truth?
1. No.
2. Yes.
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Should teachers instruct students in "basic and relative ethics" or in "basic facts and absolute ethics?"
1. Basic Facts.
2. Absolute Ethics.
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Should students be taught the principles of self-government, or should they be instructed in how to work in groups to form a "consensus" or a "synthesis" of opinions through "Group Think?"
1. Consensus and/or synthesis
2. Self-government
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The teaching of history:
1. Actual history should be revised to fit a politicized view that all cultures, at bottom are identical, since all religions are, at bottom, equally irrelevant.
2. The actual history of Western civilization (which is based upon biblical ethics) is contrasted with the history of Eastern civilization (which is based upon non-biblical ethics), because only God's Word gives the correct principles on how to live and govern ourselves.
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Is there such a thing as a "mind," or are the only things "real," those that can be "touched, seen, smelled, or objectively measured?"
1. There is no "mind."
2. There is a "mind."
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Should the curriculum be child-centered, or Christ-centered?
1. Child-centered
2. Christ-centered
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Students should be taught how to bring "glory and honor to God" in everything they do.
1. False
2. True
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Christian education is:
1. An optional add-on to a child's worldview.
2. It is an essential part of The Great Commission. (Matthew 22.37; 28.18-20)
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How does a person become "wise?"
1. Be a good student; go to the best schools and sit under the best teachers, and learn from our experiences.
2. Study the Word of God.
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What is the purpose of an education?
1. Prepare us for a paycheck.
2. Prepare us for life.
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Who is responsible for the education of children?
1. The state
2. Parents
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Where is the best place to educate students?
1. In a structured classroom.
2. Wherever we "sit, walk, lie down, and rise up." (Deuteronomy 6.7)
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Should teachers get to know the worldview of their students, or should they stick to the curriculum?
1. Stick to the curriculum.
2. Learn the worldview of the students.
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Teachers should pray with and for their students.
1. False
2. True
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When it comes to the issue of Christian education:
1. Pastors should approach this in a pragmatic manner by not addressing it because it is a divisive issue and they will lose members (or their job!). Besides many churches have members (including officers) who are affiliated with the public schools and/or who send their children to the public schools.
2. Pastors should approach this in a pious manner by obeying God's clear commands and thoroughly explain the sin of sending Christian children to schools that hate God and only promote the worship of false religions. (Deuteronomy 6.4-7; Isaiah 36.9; 2 Corinthians 6.14; Matthew 15.14, etc.) In the process of doing this, the pastors are providing a testimony to their members that they practice what they preach by trusting-in and relying-upon God's sovereign control of His creation to honor our obedience and curse our disobedience.
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Is it a sin to submit our children to programs and policies of non-Christians, and/or to join with non-Christians in business ventures?
1. No
2. Yes
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Second Cut - Civil Government

What does the separation of church and state mean?
1. The church shouldn't have anything to do with the state, and the state shouldn't have anything to do with the church. Both should be entirely separate.
2. God gave each self-governing sphere (individual, family, church, state) particular responsibilities, and neither sphere should usurp any responsibilities of the other.
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Should we depend upon the civil government to "legislate" us out of our cultural problems, or should we "self-govern" ourselves out of our cultural problems?
1. Legislate
2. Self-govern
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Our civil laws:
1. Should be based upon man's opinions and "best guesses," which means sometimes there will be some "gray" areas when the courts administer justice.
2. Should be based upon God's absolute ethics as revealed on the inerrant pages of the Bible, which means there are only "black and white" areas of right and wrong behavior.
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Our elected representatives should govern as:
1. Politicians
2. Statesmen
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When we vote:
1. Do we vote for the "lesser of two evils," or
2. Do we vote to "overcome evil with good?" (Romans 12.21)
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Which economic policies do you favor?
1. Those which promote the socialistic "heavy hand" of civil government? or
2. Those which promote biblical capitalistic principles of self-government?
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Do you see the role of civil government as:
1. Providing a wide array of social programs, including education? or
2. Defending us against attack and keeping our communities safe for us to live, work, play and raise our families the way we want?
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We should "Render to Caesar:"
1. Everything he asks, because Jesus says so.
2. Only the things that are Caesar's, because Jesus says so.
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Should Christians be involved in civil government?
1. No, all politicians are crooks, and we should not dirty our hands in that field.
2. Yes, a Christian can bring honor and glory to God in all areas of life, and since God has given only one ethical code by which to live, Christian statesmen can help ensure that only biblical legislation takes place.
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Third Cut - Worldview & Lifestyle

What does having a Christian worldview mean to you?
1. It helps me to know the differences between how Christians and non-Christians view the world.
2. It helps me to know the descriptions of the differences between a Christian and non-Christian worldview, plus it helps me know God's prescriptions for how to deal with the various cultural issues.
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In order to have a satisfying lifestyle:
1. We can depend upon our self-sufficiency, personal initiative, education and the practical application of our knowledge to an ever-changing value standard of relative ethics, or
2. We can depend upon God's Word to sufficiently provide us with all the wisdom needed to live and govern ourselves successfully in accordance with an absolute and unchanging value standard.
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When it comes to one's worldview and lifestyle:
1. There two ethical value standards: a "religious" one to be used in our homes and churches, and a "real life" one to be used in our vocations and/or with non-Christians?
2. There is only one absolute and unchanging ethical standard for all areas of our life and for all the situations and circumstances in which we may find ourselves?
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Is your worldview and lifestyle based upon:
1. The 2nd Table of God's Law: Commandments 5-10 (honor those in authority, don't kill, cheat, steal, lie or be jealous)? Or
2. Upon both the 2nd Table and the 1st Table of God's Law: Commandments 1-4 (worship only the one true God of the Bible, don't make idols, or misuse the name of the Lord, and to keep the Lord's Day holy)?
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When God tells us to "walk in all the ways that I have commanded you, so that it may be well with you," (Jeremiah 7.23) what does this verse mean to you?
1. God made a mistake, He really didn't mean it, and we won't be punished if we only make an effort to obey those parts of the Bible that conform to our current worldview and lifestyle. After all, nobody is perfect!
2. Even though we are imperfect and will never be able to obey God perfectly, we should strive to do that because God never makes mistakes and means what He says. We should put forth our best effort, knowing that we will blessed if we obey God, and cursed if we disobey Him.
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I believe that:
1. God exists for us.
2. We exist for God.
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Who's "running the show?" Who's in charge of planet earth?
1. Satan
2. Jesus
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As Christians do we have a
1. Hope to cope? Or a
2. Hope to conquer?
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It is said that a "text without a context is a pretext," and so is a "worldview and lifestyle without a biblical reference point, pointless." This is why we should always ask before making any decision, or addressing any cultural issue:
1. Is the context of my decision-making man's word?
2. Is the context of my decision-making God's Word?
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Which statement correctly describes the Christian attitude?
1. We should keep in our place and not impose our religion on others.
2. We should "boldly" and "confidently" live by God's ethics at all times and in all places.
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Which group of people controls history?
1. Non-Christians
2. Christians
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Are the times in which we are living "normal," or "abnormal?"
1. Normal
2. Abnormal
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God's Word is:
1. Something soothing for our troubled mind.
2. A lamp to our feet.
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How do we "enlarge the place of Christ's tent?" (Isaiah 54.2)
1. Be seeker-friendly and water down God's Word so that we won't offend non-Christians by using words such as "sin," and "hell."
2. Teach the whole counsel of God's Word and trust in God's sovereign control to bless the preaching of His Word.
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Our duty as Christians:
1. Rely-upon and trust-in the advice of others when they tell us that we are supposed to live and interpret the Bible within the framework of current events.
2. Trust-in and rely-upon God's Word to guide and direct our daily actions.
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Are we:
1. Armed with God's perfect counsel, and not dangerous?
2. Dangerous because we have the potential for changing our culture with God's ethics, but don't know how to go about it because many of our pastors have done a poor job of teaching us?
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Is your daily testimony (lifestyle):
1. About the same as the lifestyle of your non-Christian neighbors.
2. Significantly different than that of your non-Christian neighbors.
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Do we live in an orderly, cause-and-effect universe, or in a universe where events happen randomly?
1. A random universe.
2. An orderly universe.
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Fourth Cut - Decision Making

Is it possible for us to make correct decisions by depending upon our own wisdom and common sense?
1. Yes, after all, God has given us a brain and the ability to communicate.
2. No, because Adam and Eve's disobedience impaired our ability to reason correctly. This is why we need to filter all of our decisions through a gird of biblical ethics. Thinking God's thoughts after Him is the only way we can be confident that we will arrive at correct decisions.
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What is your opinion regarding God's Word?
1. I have respect for it.
2. I have a reverential fear of it.
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What is the "Chief Influencer" of your daily decisions?
1. What's in it for me?
2. What's in it for God?
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What's the Context of Your Worldview?
1. It's pretty much the ethics of commandments 5-10: Honor those in authority, don't murder, cheat, steal, lie or covet.
2. It is a combination of all Ten Commandments, plus the application of the Case Laws that follow them, whereby Moses tells us how to live and govern ourselves.
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What are the criteria you use to make your best decisions?
1. The "prevailing opinion" of other Christians, plus my common sense and logic.
2. God's Word is the primary authority, but for those topics about which I haven't studied, I comply with the counsel of other Christians.
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Do you lean on your understanding, or upon God's?
1. Are you going to mirror the way non-Christians live, making your daily decisions according to your wisdom, while adding moralistic ethics to your lifestyle in an external effort to win points with God? Or,
2. Are you going to mirror the way the Bible commands you to live, with your external actions founded on the internal motivations of your new spiritual heart.
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Relax, there's no "pass or fail" score. As you have probably figured out, the "B" answers reflect a Christian worldview. Since each of us is completely "justified" in God.s sight as soon as we repent and turn from living according to our rules, and begin living in accordance to His rules, and since each of us is gradually "sanctified" (made more holy) throughout the remainder of our life on earth, there is no "pass" or "fail" score for this test. The only thing that counts is to identify those areas of our worldview and lifestyle that need repenting of, and then to do so. This is the only way to bring glory and honor to our Lord, Savior and King, Jesus Christ, and it is also the only way to present a godly antithesis to the ungodly cultural agenda of our non-Christian neighbors. They think that they know how to live, but we, through the grace of the Holy Spirit who has removed the veil from our eyes do know how to live and govern ourselves and we are commanded to provide a daily testimony of how to do just that. Each one of us grows at our own speed. So, instead of focusing on a particular score, we should be concentrating on the process of improving our current score so that we can be more consistent and effective servants of Jesus. This percentage score simply indicates to you the amount of biblically correct answers you selected. Your two-pronged strategy for walking in a more consistent manner with your Creator is to keep your strong areas strong ("B" answers), and to strengthen your weak areas ("A" answers).

A friend of mine says, "You never know what you look like until you get your picture taken." And now that you have had your spiritual "picture taken," and know your "score," are you so quick to dismiss the idea that up to now you may have been an unwilling sleeper agent for advancing the non-Christian cultural agenda by rarely, if ever, stepping back from your daily decision-making process to consider whether your daily decisions will honor man, rather than God?

NOTE: The answers to these questions are discussed in detail in How to De-Program Yourself from All the Blasphemous Things Your Learned in Public School. So, if you don.t agree with the answers, or perhaps think that some of them are unreasonable, you will have a pretty good idea of how much you have been brainwashed!