“Do you really believe that what you believe is really real?” It’s a sobering question—are you prepared to answer it? Dr. Del Tackett, of Focus on the Family, passionately addresses this challenge in his small-group study The Truth Project.

Focus on the Family's The Truth Project is a dynamic, systematic Christian worldview study. As citizens of a heavenly kingdom and an earthly nation, one of our most valuable assets is our Christian worldview, our understanding of the world. So what is a Christian worldview?

In The Truth Project, Dr. Tackett explains that a worldview is “a comprehensive set of truth claims that purports to paint a picture of reality; the framework from which we view reality and make sense of life and the world.” The Truth is “that which corresponds to reality, that which is really real.” In a Christian worldview, then, Biblical truths provide the framework from which we view reality and make sense of life and the world around us.

From a practical standpoint, how does this worldview idea really work? Let me give you an example. Suppose that you believe in the evolutionary theory. Life is an accident and human beings are slightly glorified apes, merely reasoning animals.

How does that viewpoint inform your perception of life? How valuable is your life, or someone else’s life, if we’re all just animals? Can there be subgroups of humans that haven’t evolved as well as others? At what point does a human life begin and become valuable, and when does it lose that value?

I’ve just hinted at a few of the horrible ideologies that have destroyed countless human lives through genocide, ethnic cleansing and abortion. However, I could have carried this train of thought in a much less dramatic, and therefore more dangerous, subtle direction.

If life is a product of chance, and human beings are merely animals, then who decides right and wrong? Moral absolutes make little or no sense if humans are not created by a divine, all-knowing, all-powerful God because we’re not ultimately responsible to anyone for our actions. In this worldview, truth is subjective and everyone is free to do what is right in his or her own eyes.

Individual responsibility, moral absolutes, traditional marriage, the family unit—they all are essential to our form of government. Liberty depends on personal responsibility. Our system of checks and balances is founded on a Christian worldview. It works when people are guided by a worldview that is consistent with God’s Word on every level.

In 2003, George Barna of the Barna Group released a stunning statistic; only 9% of professing Christians hold a Christian worldview. Friends, that staggering, small percentage says it all; it explains the self-destructive, endangered state of our culture, our government, our churches, our communities, and yes, of our families and marriages.

Wisconsin Family Council is founded and grounded on Judeo-Christian principles and values—on the biblical worldview that tells us we have a civic opportunity and a Christian obligation to be Salt and Light in this world. Unless we are actively involved in our culture and government, our freedom to evangelize, to share the Gospel and disciple could disappear within a generation or two at best.

As Christians we have a corporate and individual responsibility to be engaged. But we need to be re-trained, many of us, in the basics of the Christian worldview that should inform our decisions and guide our involvement, which is why we are pleased to promote The Truth Project training events.

The first such event in Wisconsin is scheduled for Saturday, April 5, in Appleton. Visit truthproject.org, that’s truthproject.org and click on the events menu item for details. If you miss online registration, remember walk-in registrations at the host church, Appleton Alliance, the day of the event are welcome. If you miss the April 5 th event, please give us a toll-free call at 888-378-7395 to find out if there is a Truth Project study group in your area. We’re also working on hosting other one-day training events in the near future. However you manage it, we trust you find some time to study in depth the answer to the question “do you really believe that what you believe is really real?” and to experience the deep transformation that results when we understand God and His Truth claims in a richer and fuller way.

For Wisconsin Family Council, I’m Julaine Appling, reminding you the Prophet Hosea said, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.”