There is a troubling occurrence within the church in modern times-divorce. Not the divorce of men and women and the breakdown of the marriage and the family structure. Although this occurrence is more frequent than one would wish, the divorce between orthodoxy and orthopraxy is a much greater tragedy that is leading to the decline of the biblical family. How this is even possible within faith? How can it be that those who should know better, do not? The answer seems to be that at best there is a misunderstanding of what it means to be a Christian and have a Christian worldview. And, at worst a complete denial that such a worldview has any bearing upon the activities of the individual. In short, the idea that one may profess belief in Jesus Christ while leaving these specific beliefs at the “altar” in daily living is a far too common occurrence within the modern day church. Just as a wife may claim an identity to her husband while living in habitual unfaithfulness, many who call themselves believers in Jesus Christ do not seem to embrace the teachings of the One whose identity they claim. Complicating this reality, it seems that at no other time in history has there been a greater battle between competing philosophies. The modern philosophical landscape at times is a battlefield between theism, empiricism, humanism, secularism, postmodernism and post Christian points of view. Throw into this mix an open acceptance within religion of; trinitarianism, pantheism, deism, modalism, Sabellianism and the philosophical landscape is crowded with the armies of competing worldviews. The malay of interaction between these worldviews has created a world that is cluttered and covered by a dense fog of suspicion and doubt with what is truly true being hard to distinguish. Is it any wonder that the tenants of Christian faith are syncretiscally amalgamated into what is popular belief within modern culture? Especially when there is an openness to incorporate non Christian teachings into the structure and belief of the organized church? It truly is a fair question to ask, “Does one’s worldview matter?”
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