Expose and Reveal

Susie was born into a Christian family 23 years ago. She grew up going to Sunday School, Vacation Bible School, youth group, short term missions, and possibly was home schooled or attended Christian private school. She enters college at 18 professing to be a Christian. As she leaves college and enters the world as an educated professional, she now tells others she doesn’t think she is a Christian anymore.

Jemison graduated college 10 years ago and began his career believing Jesus for his salvation. He may have even become a Christian in college through the influence of campus ministries. BUT, he has now grown cynical of his faith because he has noticed it hasn’t really mattered much in his life. As he looks around he notices his Christian friends were more like all of his other friends than they were different. Maybe Christians were even more judgmental, defensive, emotionally fragile, and less successful than those who didn’t care about religion.

What went wrong? What is happening? Why do statistics show that approximately 40% of all freshman, who profess to be a Christian, will deny that they are a Christian when they graduate? Why are divorce rates and pornography as prevalent in Christians as the rest of the world?

Basically we find that when all people are saved and become a Christian, their new heart is not automatically accompanied by a new way to make sense of themselves and the world around them. Paul saw this even in the early church. This may be why Jesus said “repent and believe”, where repent means a massive change of mind, even a complete change of the mind. Maybe it is why Paul said, “be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” What must be changed – renewed - transformed? What about the mind must be different? Completely different!

b4Worldview is a transformational learning experience for people at any age, but especially millennials who are facing college. Expert professionals at b4Worldview have discovered that although someone becomes a Christian, if they maintain carnal thinking about human nature, truth and reality, then they will be vulnerable to the “elementary and worthless principles of this world.” Christians and non-Christians alike ultimately think, feel, and act from a fundamental pattern of thought, which are called core assumptions. These are basic ideas that influence choices about life and living that are rarely, if ever, questioned and proven.

b4Wolrdview exposes the carnal mind and reveals the mind of Christ. After 10 – 12 hours of the b4Worldview course, a Christian will more fully grasp why God’s truths matter and why the assumptions of this world are futile. After 10 - 12 hours of the b4Worldview course a non-Christian will become very uncomfortable with the worthlessness of their own assumptions and be more open to absolute truth and a reliance on faith. The mission of the Christian Worldview industry, such as The Colson Center, The Summit, and the academic products for students in Christian schools, is to equip Christians to defend their faith in our culture, not to transform core assumptions. God’s word is true not because it is in the Bible. God’s word is in the Bible because it is true. b4Worldview provides Christians and non-Christians an investigation of God’s truth without first saying, “because the Bible says so”?

b4Worldview’s mission is to transform carnal core assumptions of believers to Kingdom core assumptions so that they can engage a dying world in more effective ways and more fully benefit in their own lives from the privileges and provisions of The Kingdom in which they belong. The passion behind b4Worldview is for Christians to be the light each has been purposed to be.  Maybe even more importantly, b4Wolrdview disturbs the cynical or apathetic foothold both Christians and non-Christians have typically relied on to turn a deaf’s ear to the Gospel of Grace.

For the sponsoring organization the metrics b4Wolrdview captures to guide each student through the course provides leaders strategic insights into how their actions can collaborate with their members’ transformation. The b4Worldview staff stands ready to share how the statistics provided can highlight opportunities for other supportive forms of intervention sponsors choose to offer their members.