In January, I began the second year of hosting a 20-minute program on Radio Christian Voice called, “Battle for the Mind: The need for developing a biblical worldview.” This is a joint work between The Worldview Institute of Zambia and Emmaus Road Ministries. The focus of the program is to educate the Christian community in Zambia about the need to develop a biblical worldview in the process of maturing as a disciple of Christ. The worldview a person lives by, that was received from their culture before they became a Christian, is at odds with the new life as a child of God. Romans 12:2 says, “Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect,” (NLT). Though it is not a unique problem to Zambia, perhaps the single most stumbling block for most believers here is the baggage of their old worldview that they bring into their new Christian life. It is impossible to try to live as a Christian with the core system of understanding that was developed in the world enslaved to sin.
Through this program, we are reaching the nation of Zambia with the message that our way of understanding and interpreting the world we encounter–our worldview–as a Christian must be aligned with the truth contained in the Bible. God is God, the creator of all. If we believe that, nothing exists outside of his being and is understandable to us as we know his truths. Christianity is a total philosophy of life, not a partial one to be relegated to just a moral religious segment of life. The New Wine must have new wineskins. For Zambia, the ability to think and behave according to a biblical worldview is essential. We are so grateful for this opportunity to reach the nation every week.
