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Speaker 1: Dear Father, fill my heart with love and acceptance. To day,

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Speaker 1: Please help me to make others feel good for who

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Speaker 1: that each of us has a unique past, so remind

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Speaker 1: me to be patient when giving advice. Father, Let me

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Speaker 1: be a reflection of You in my thoughts, actions, and words,

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Speaker 1: every one I meet to day. Amen, thank you for

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Speaker 1: listening to to day's daily prayer. For more inspiration and

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Speaker 1: an incredible message from our feature pastor stay tuned to

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Speaker 1: pray dot COM's Sunday service.

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Speaker 2: Future generations will be directly impacted by the priority that

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Speaker 2: this generation places on developing young men and women with

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Speaker 2: a biblical worldview. This week, we are looking at Romans

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Speaker 2: chapter twelve, simply two verses one and two. In a

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Speaker 2: message entitled Worldview Matters, the apostle Paul was writing to

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Speaker 2: Christians in Rome under Christians in Rome under Roman occupation,

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Speaker 2: under Roman persecution, with a predominant pagan worldview. This is

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Speaker 2: the world in which Paul writes to the Christians in Rome.

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Speaker 2: They needed a worldview that was not informed by the

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Speaker 2: George Barna surveyed and he said that under ten percent

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Speaker 2: of North American Christians operate with a biblical worldview. That

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Speaker 2: less than ten percent of Christians in North America view

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Speaker 2: matters Romans twelve, verses one through two. I appeal to you, therefore, brothers,

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Speaker 2: by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as

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Speaker 2: Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed

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Speaker 2: by the renewing of your mind, that by testing you

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Speaker 2: may discern what is the will of God, what is

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Speaker 3: It stands forever. Amen, you may be seated.

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Speaker 2: Worldview matters. Paul says, to be transformed by the renewing

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Speaker 2: Church will be directly impacted by the priority that this

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Speaker 3: With a biblical worldview.

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Speaker 2: You might be here this morning and the concept of

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Speaker 2: helpful definitions. The first is by Francis Shaeffer. Francis Shaeffer said,

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Speaker 2: a worldviews the grid through which one sees the world.

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Speaker 2: Nancy Percy, in her book Total Truth says a worldview

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Speaker 2: That Jesus Christ from beginning to end, and his life

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Speaker 2: not conform to the world. Paul starts by explaining the

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Speaker 2: There's many ideologies we could point to, but one of

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Speaker 2: these deadly fatal philosophies together and you have secular humanism.

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Speaker 2: How do we see secular humanism in our day? Well,

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Speaker 2: public education. There is no greater influence on the next

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Speaker 2: And this is what Charles Francis Potter said. Education is

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Speaker 2: thus a most powerful ally of humanism. And every public

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Speaker 2: long as it's entertaining and fulfilling its desired end. You

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Speaker 2: We've seen it in the last three to four years.

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Speaker 2: the problem is even Christians in the church don't give

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Speaker 3: Of a biblical worldview.

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Speaker 2: Do not be conformed to the patterns of this age.

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Speaker 2: A biblical worldview grounded in the Gospel. A biblical worldview

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Speaker 2: not conformed to this world. Third, and lastly, a biblical

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Speaker 2: Christianity has always been a thinking religion, never calling the

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Speaker 2: Our Father and our God, Lord, I pray that in

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Speaker 2: that our worldview would be grounded in one thing, and

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Speaker 2: only one that can transform hearts and lives forever. May

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Speaker 2: Basis of the mercy of Jesus Christ, the one who

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Speaker 2: as a living sacrifice. So take our minds, take our souls,

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Speaker 2: May we together pursue a new way of thinking, a

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Speaker 2: And Lord, would you work in us by your spirit?

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