大使命23
聖經的世界觀
我們一直在討論一些不同世界觀的一般區別與基本區別，我們的目標在於強化與深入基督教世界觀，並且瞭解我們要如何與世界互動。
然而，就像有許多運動與教派，我們也有許多基督教世界觀。我們多少會將自己的生活經驗與瞭解加入我們的觀點，這樣做有好有壞，取決於我們生活經驗的好壞。更重要的是，我們的世界觀有可能受到我們如何回應生活經驗好壞的影響。即便如此，一個真實的基督教世界觀並非由我們經驗而來的世界觀點，而是從基督的角度來看世界。我們需要在基督裡很大的成熟，才能超越自己的看法用祂的眼睛來觀看，倘若我們要正確來看這世界，這必須成為我們的目標。
我們要如何得著基督的世界觀呢？我們從祂藉由聖經賜給我們的啟示開始，我們將此稱為聖經的世界觀。我們將從下列聖經世界觀中的主要觀點來檢視：
1) 人的被造是為了神的喜悅，並為了與神擁有特別的團契關係。
2) 人與神的關係因著人的罪與悖逆神而破裂。
3) 神是如此深愛世人與世界，以致於祂藉由耶穌在十字架上的贖罪祭來恢復與人的關係。
4) 凡是相信十字架為他們的罪帶來救贖就是重生得救、成為『新造的人』。正如當我們在自然界剛出生時，那並不是我們最後要成為的樣式，那不過是最初的樣式。我們接受基督屬靈的本質，然後成為一個『新人』，是藉著在基督裡長大成熟而做成的。
5) 這世代是為了幫助新造的人成熟，好讓他們可以在要來的世代與基督一起掌管與掌權，將地上重建成為它最初被造要成為的樂園。
聖經世界觀的基礎在於神愛世人，甚至將祂的獨生子賜下成為贖罪祭。沒有比十字架對於神是誰更大的啓示了，當世界抵擋祂，祂並沒有定世界的罪，卻來到地上，捨了自己的生命為了贖回世界並與其和好。
十字架是歷史的大樞紐，是所有建造在其上之真實智慧與瞭解的根基。歷史（history）這個字來自祂的故事（His-story），正如我們在啟示錄最後看見，耶穌被稱為天上神的羔羊，為了尊榮神最偉大的行動，並對祂是誰做出最大的呈現。
對於世界真正又正確的瞭解是被建造在十字架之上，包括它的過去、現在與未來。再一次，耶穌不是來定世界的罪，它已經被定罪了，祂來是為要拯救世界。祂不是要回來定世界的罪，乃是要拯救它。為此緣故，福音是『好消息』，而不是壞消息，它是世界曾聽過並將要聽到的最好消息。
就算耶穌和使徒預言的所有災難將在末日臨到，黑暗之後將有黎明。萬事的結局將是世界與神和好，倘若我們要有所瞭解，我們必須從這樣的觀點來看世界和未來將臨到之事，並帶著救贖性的目的。
絕不要忘記神對我們的愛勝過一切，就算祂的審判臨到都是因為祂愛我們。神的審判並不是為了定罪與毀滅，而是為了管教祂所愛的。祂愛世界與所有住在其中的人，祂用十字架買贖全世界，而且會在祂所定的時間得著它。我們在地上的一個目的便是為祂的國度預備道路，而祂的國一定會來到。
(摘自喬納 word for the week, Week23, 2014)
A Scriptural Worldview - The Great Commission, Part 23
Week 23, 2014
Rick Joyner
We have been discussing some of the general and basic distinctions between different worldviews. Our goal is the strengthening and deepening of our Christian worldview and understanding how we are to interact with the world.
However, there are as many Christian worldviews as there are movements and denominations, and actually as many as there are Christians. We all add our own life experiences and understanding to our view to some degree. This can be good or bad, often depending on whether we have had a good or bad experience in life. Even more importantly, our worldview can be affected by how we have reacted to the good and bad experiences in our life. Even so, a true Christian worldview is not from our perspective of the world based on our experiences. It is seeing the world from Christ’s perspective. It takes a great maturity in Christ to rise above our own perspective to see with His eyes, but that must be our goal if we are to see this world accurately.
How do we get Christ’s view of the world? We begin with His revelation of His view which He gave to us through the Scriptures. We will call this the biblical worldview. We will begin examining this from the following cardinal points of the worldview of Scripture:
1) Man was created for God’s pleasure and to have a special fellowship with God.
2) The fellowship between God and man was broken with man’s sin and rebellion against God.
3) God loves man and the world so much that He made a provision for the restoration of fellowship with man and this world through the atonement sacrifice of Jesus on the cross.
4) Those who believe in the atonement of the cross for their sins are born again and become a part of the “new creation.” Just as when we are born in the natural, this is not the end of what we are to become, but rather the beginning. We are then to mature into a “new man” by taking on the divine nature of Christ, which we do by growing up into Christ.
5) This age is for the purpose of helping those of the new creation to mature, so that they can rule and reign with Christ in the age to come, restoring the earth to the paradise it was originally created to be.
Basic to this worldview is that God so loves the world that He would send His own Son to provide the atonement sacrifice. There is no greater revelation of who God is than the cross. He did not condemn the world when it rebelled against Him, but rather came and laid down His own life to redeem and reconcile the world back to Him.
The cross is the great pivot point of history, the foundation that all true wisdom and understanding are built upon. The very word history comes from His-story. As we see at the end of the Book of Revelation, Jesus is called the Lamb of God in heaven, in honor of this greatest of all the acts of God and the greatest demonstration of who He is.
A truly accurate understanding of the world, as it has been, as it is, and as it will be, is founded upon the cross. Again, Jesus did not come to condemn the world—it was already condemned. He came to save it. He is not coming back to condemn the world, but to save it. For this reason, the gospel is “good news,” not bad news. It is the best news the world has ever, or will ever, hear.
Even with all of the troubles that Jesus and the apostles prophesied would come at the end of the age, there is a great dawn that will follow the darkness. The conclusion of all things will be the reconciliation of the world to God. It is from this perspective, with a redemptive purpose, that we must see the world and all that is unfolding, if we are to have understanding.
Never ever forget that God’s love for us overshadows everything. Even His judgments come because He loves us. The judgments of God are not to condemn and destroy, but to discipline those whom He loves. He loves the whole world and all who are in it. He purchased the whole world by the cross, and He will take possession of it in due time. One of our purposes for being on the earth is to prepare the way for His kingdom, which is surely coming.