Worldviews reflect the sum of our perceptions of the world — world + view = worldview — everyone knows that. Our worldviews change when our perceptions — what we see and hear and taste and smell and touch — change. Remember how seeing the world from 35,000 feet changed your worldview? The world didn’t open up, you did.
Acquiring a biblical worldview is a change of perceptions about the world that involves moving from where we are; going ever deeper into the biblical text because that’s where the Bible’s worldview is found — where we see and hear at least what the Bible is about. We can read about it, hear about it, talk about it till our eyes burn and our ears ring and our tongues swell, but until the biblical text becomes our new here we can’t have a biblical worldview. Other people can give us the idea, the concept (perhaps the illusion) of a biblical worldview, but that’s not the thing itself.
The Bible’s worldview is absorbed by entering the biblical narrative — not as tourists but as immigrants who immerse ourselves in the language, culture and practices of our new home. Forming a biblical worldview is never complete as long as there is more to see and hear and taste and touch and breathe-in — which there always is — so we have our work cut out for us.
