![]() During 2021 we did have family camp, on the theme of Hearing God. We built in family times to train, including times of solitude and silent listening for the inner promptings of the Holy Spirit. We were all met. And about 40 people got to know each other better around the attractions of Busso. During the year we were able to continue meeting with youth on Fridays, the Art club, various small groups, and continued our regular meeting together at the community hall. Gathering around the Gospel of John has been spiritually eye-opening - every chapter has more to say about how we should see spiritually. This isn't easy when our cultural default is materialism. We also found each section to have very specific implications, as if we had rigged the section to fit the circumstances, but the 12 month schedule had been planned mid year. God just knows what he's doing. It's our job to listen and do. A core team of young adults joined OAC in delivering the Worldview Australia camp in January. Another big success, and as we tune in it seems the Lord wants to duplicate the ministry with many young people interested in stepping in to various directing roles to enable another camp to begin elsewhere midyear. So we're working on that now. Sooner rather than later, shift the conversation from world-views to foundation level. That is where I want the convo to go anyway! But this is imperative, otherwise we can't talk meaningfully. See the video below at 45:54 (Note: Ken defines world-views as based on foundations, whereas I define worldviews as including foundations, but his distinction is helpful here.) If people are attacking you for your world-views (about say, abortion, gender, love), it means you are inconsistent with THEIR foundation. So exposing the different foundations, allows you to have a deeper more useful conversation about that first. And it raises the question, WHOSE foundation is the true one - God’s Word or man’s word? God's Word really shines as an objectively reliable foundation. We have objective evidences, and interpretations of those observations which have better global explanatory power. We have good and sufficient reasons to accept the Bible's historical reliability, and its divine revelation. (See apologetics for how we know the Bible is reliable - Core Stuff).
Compare this Biblical foundation with naturalism's… .Naturalism simplistically excludes any supernatural phenomena, a only admitting self-supporting data, a closed loop for a closed mind. .Naturalistic science is often biased by peer pressure and financial pressure to conform or be cancelled, especially wherever scientists are unquestioningly wedded to their own interpretation (eg. evolution.) There is a crucial difference between observational science (which is the measured data), and historical ‘science’ (which depends on interpretations of the data.) All interpretations must work with the same observations (not simply exclude observations that don't fit.) And Biblical interpretations work just as well with all the observations as any other interpretation, in fact better - eg They offer more cohesive interpretations across all disciplines such as design, genetic entropy, biology, geology, anthropology, cosmology, historical archaeology & manuscript evidence... Search creation.com for your subject of interest. Anyway, until your naturalist protagonists can see that & why our foundations differ from theirs, they’ll not see why our world-views differ from theirs. But it's such an obvious point. Maybe some refuse to look foundationally because it's easier to simplistically label us illogical / primitive / hateful / conspiracy theorists. That would be divisive avoidance of the reality we represent. In fact we’re none of those things. Rather, our world-views logically flow from a different (better, more solid/good/life-giving, but different) foundation, and one worthy of their consideration... if they only would. If they DON'T see that much, well that would be illogical, wouldn't it. If they DO see that much, they should give us a little credit. And consider our foundations. This is a brilliant read: chapter 1 of the Creation Answers Book.
What do we mean by God, how do we know he exists, what difference does he make. So many answers, and so concise: https://creation.com/god-existence-cab-1 |
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