Biblical Worldview: 4th week's DTS journal

My background is a complex mix. My father is an atheist and a humanist who anyway believes that the most effective moral guidelines can be found within the Ten Commandments -specifically, the 5th to 10th Commandments. My mother is a non-practicant Catholic who as a game checked me for ESP when I was a child. One of my uncles is a Cabalist.

When I was ten years old, I had found and read several times a book titled "The Magic of Psychotronic Power", my first book on occultism. I studied and practiced it for fourteen years. I believed its teachings, because I saw them work. I specialized in sciences on high school and went to university to study Biology. I believed equally in evolutionism and in the spiritual world. My parents encouraged me to investigate and to seek knowledge; just for fun, my family and me analyzed natural phenomenons just to know how they came to be. Yeah, we were nerds and proud of it before smart became the new sexy.

See? It's officially true now!

My worldview was a mess. I believed the evolution theories as a fact; actually, I was teached since school that they were a fact. But I also knew that an spiritual world existed, and I interacted with it in a daily basis. I had pacts with several spirits, so I could call them for help in exchange for servitude. It was real for me. I must admit, I felt very proud because I was the only one who knew about that reality. The books I read told me that reality was defined by our beliefs; the human being had the power to affect the creation itself. That was the reason for so different magic paths to work around the world: voodoo, shamanism -my chosen option-, adoration to idols or saints, and so on. Nowadays, whenever someone tells me about "The Secret" books, I just get angry.

... I'm going to start punching you now, quote. I'm not sure when I'll stop.

When I accepted Jesus as my saviour, it all crumbled. It was difficult. It was great. It was true. Suddenly all the logic holes in evolutionary theory became too big to ignore. With prayer, biblical study and Neil T. Anderson books about spiritual freedom, the spirituality that I knew was totally discarded. Some years later, David Yonggi Cho's "The Fourth Dimension" provided me with some context about what had I been doing and how to use that experience for a more focused and biblical-based praying.

I've really enjoyed this week. There's something that we have been seeing a lot, something that I learned from Ken Ham: everyone has a belief system and lives for it. Naturalism is a belief system, and their supporters will argue and defend it because all of their worldview revolves around it. And so do we. There's no "neutral" position. A friend of mine told me about taking my DTS "I don't think that you going to preach your beliefs to other people is any good", so I answered her, "I appreciate your preaching of your beliefs to me". I mean, everyone, all the time, is expressing and transmitting what they believe in!

Even between Christians, we do exactly that. When we decide not to preach the Gospel, that means that we are ashamed of doing it, and that we don't believe it in full, or that we don't love our neighbours enough. I remember a Spurgeon quote; when he was asked about what was his motivation, he said that whenever he looked at people, he saw unsaved souls that would fall into hell if the Gospel wasn't preached to them.

Bible Hard II: With A Worldview.
This time, it's personal

I feel challenged to adopt that kind of love, that radical worldview that moves me to work non-stop to achieve the goals and dreams that Jesus has given me. My goal is starting a ministry called Excellence Club: Global Healthy Life. Its premise was be a family club, with activities for getting the families together and also for age groups, that would teach them how to live better, using speechs on finances, nutrition, sport, and so on, and of course related activities -cook courses, family marathons-, always followind the biblical guidelines. Today I can summarize it all as a club for teaching the biblical worldview to families. It's meant to be an evangelization tool for non-believers, and a biblical insight for believers. I'm really happy of having learned about it all this week, because it's giving me a lot of focus.

Also, my concept of the Kingdom of God has been totally updated. I thought about the Kingdom getting closer as a promise on its way to be fulfilled, and also as a commandment to believers to improve this world as much as I can. Brian told us instead that in God's kingdom, God is the king and lives in our spirits; we are the citizens of the kingdom, and the land of the kingdom are our own lives, where God is sovereign. So, the full kingdom can be found on the church, on every one of us. On me. The kingdom of God it's me. Let me say it again, because it's a revolutionary thought that fortifies my worldview and turns it diamond-like:

THE KINGDOM OF GOD IT'S ME

Totally. Amazing. Week!