September

September 1, 2020
September 1, 2020 Joe Grasso

September

We’re all operating on certain assumptions.  Things we can’t directly prove or don’t typically go to the trouble to prove on a daily basis.  Though I’ve seen quite a few Avengers films, I don’t anticipate a twelve foot tall green Hulk to go bounding past my window.  I don’t feel compelled to prove why I don’t anticipate the Hulk, or a calmer Dr. Bruce Banner, dropping on by Elim Grace this morning for a coffee.  I don’t feel compelled to prove that my life isn’t actually a dream, that cows can’t drive manual transmission vehicles, or that all the oxygen in the atmosphere isn’t going to rapidly combust in the next half hour.

We all have a worldview.  Beliefs about the way the universe works and people behave that underpin our decisions.  It’s essential then, that our worldview is accurate.   That it’s true.  Truth has been under serious attack lately.  Subjectivism is the pop-up advertisement that won’t go away.  But it’s illogical to say that just because we can’t know everything we can’t know anything.  A definition of truth I’d like to propose would be something like, “a statement or description that is in accord with the fact or brute reality of a thing”

In this month’s Vision Forward, dive into the importance of having a view of the world grounded in Scripture.  A biblical worldview.  As in, God, the Being of which nothing greater can be imagined and actually exists, has gifted us with vital truth about what Douglas Adams called, “life, the universe, and everything”