LBC Echo Winter 2022 - 6

By Drs. Joseph Kim and Daniel R. Spanjer
Professor of Bible & Theology and Chair of the Arts & Sciences Department
few years ago, I discovered a British television
series called " Grand Designs. " Each episode follows
a couple (or occasionally a single person) who
sets out to build a home with an expansive vision,
an inadequate budget and an unrealistic schedule. Each
project runs into problems along the way and typically
ends with the couple exhausted by the arduous task yet
excited to welcome the show's host into their completed
(or nearly completed) home. The show is successful in
part because it highlights the very human desire for a
home that is safe and suited to a family's needs.
In a world prone to chaos, a home is a sanctuary that
offers shelter and security. But the physical security of a
home is not the only haven human beings need. People
also work to create places of intellectual and spiritual
shelter to protect their souls. For Christians, crafting this
type of shelter is essential work in a world that is hostile
to Christ and His teachings. The central mission of LBC |
Capital is to " educate students to think and live a biblical
worldview. " As followers of Christ, we recognize that a
properly constructed biblical worldview is necessary for
our flourishing. By His grace, God has already given us
a spiritual home " built on the foundation of the apostles
and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone "
(Ephesians 2:20). Assisted by His Spirit, God calls His
people to align their thinking with His so that we might
" build " a worldview to inhabit with our fellow believers.
A central part of LBC | Capital's mission is to guide our
students through the worldview building process.
As physical homes require foundations, frames and
furnishings necessary to foster healthy lives, so does
a biblical worldview. A biblical worldview requires
the foundation of a proper understanding of reality
(orthoaxiom), the frame made of our
historic faith's central
truths (orthodoxy) and the faithful practices, or furnishings,
of God's people as they walk in obedience by the Holy
Spirit's power (orthopraxis). A properly constructed biblical
worldview will grant our students a safe " home " in which
to live and flourish as they seek to follow Christ and
proclaim Him in their vocation.
Just as a house can only maintain its integrity by resting
on a solid foundation, so a biblical worldview must rest
on a particular substrate, that is an axiom or a set of
assumptions, which makes sense of its beliefs. In the same
way that a building's foundation is largely unseen, so the
axiom of the biblical worldview is often forgotten.
In the past, Christian educators in America could merely
assume that their students already had a Christian
foundation on which to build their beliefs, but this is no
longer true. Our students must understand that modern
Western culture has laid beneath its worldview a pagan
axiom that is antithetical to the biblical understanding
of reality. The pagan axiom assumes that this world is
the entire context of meaning and purpose. Around this
cornerstone, the world layers other related assumptions:
the physical world is all that exists, human autonomy is
freedom, history is progressing inevitably toward a better
future, and good and evil are human constructs.
To support the framework of biblical doctrines, we must
reject as fundamentally unstable the sandy base of the
pagan axiom and replace it with God's eternal foundation.
The biblical worldview rests on the assumption that
all order and meaning derive entirely from the
transcendent, holy and eternal God,
Yahweh. God's good and gracious
character defines every
person's
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