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Center for Christian Worldview Seminars

Most Christians know they should read their Bibles, pray, and witness to others, but they aren’t clear how these spiritual duties relate to the rest of life. They know that Jesus Christ is Lord of all, but they aren’t sure how to integrate his authority into their daily routine. Worse, many suspect that their everyday life doesn’t really matter, for, as they are often told, this life is merely a test, this world is not their home, and only spiritual things last forever.

Our seminar challenges these pious but pagan sentiments with a celebration of the Christian worldview. Following the contour of the biblical story of creation, fall, and redemption, we discover what it means to be human and living in God’s world, how we destroyed our humanity and the rest of creation through disobedience, and how God is even now striking back against sin so that we—and the earth—might flourish as he intended. The gospel is larger, and far more compelling, than we ever imagined.

Seminar Options

Half-Day (3 hours)

  1. Creation: Where are we? Who are we? Why are we here?
  2. Fall: What is wrong with me and with my world?
  3. Redemption: What is God’s plan for our world?

Full Day (6 hours)

  1. What is unique about the Christian worldview? (introduction to worldviews, the role of ultimate beliefs, and comparison with the worldviews of modernity and postmodernity)
  2. Where lies the great divide? (distinction between God and creation)
  3. Creation: Where are we? Who are we? Why are we here?
  4. Fall: What is wrong with me and with my world?
  5. Redemption: What is God’s plan for our world?
  6. But what about….? (addresses biblical and theological objections and applies the content of the Christian worldview to our everyday lives)

We can shape our seminars to address specific groups, providing a Christian perspective on business, education, homemaking, ministry, marriage and family, etc. We would especially enjoy sharing with high school and college students who are beginning to find their way in God’s world.

Seminar Presenters

John Duff, B.A., M.A., M.T.S., Ph.D. candidate. Assistant Professor of Bible at Cornerstone University.

Jeremy Grinnell, B.A., M.A., Ph.D. candidate. Adjunct professor of theology at Cornerstone University and Grand Rapids Theological Seminary.

Jeff Halsted, B.A., M.Div., Th.M., Ph.D. candidate. Senior pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Michael Wittmer, B.A., M.Div., Th.M., Ph.D. Associate Professor of Systematic and Historical Theology at Grand Rapids Theological Seminary and author of Heaven Is a Place on Earth (Zondervan, 2004).

Endorsements

This seminar explained the themes of God's Word from Genesis through Revelation in a way that has forever changed my approach to Scripture and to life. Now I understand more clearly how everything we do matters to God...everything!

Dave Conrads

Pastor, Oakfield Baptist Church

After 27 years of being a Christian I feel as if I have been freed from a “legalistic” prison….Nothing in the last few years has equaled what I learned in this worldview seminar.

Tom Lowe

CEO Help Me Street

This worldview seminar challenges the way we live. If you have the opportunity to attend don't walk - run! You and your church will be glad you did.

Jeff VeStrand

Pastor
Mountain View Community Church

Master this material and I guarantee you'll never see the world or your place in it the same way again. This has been one of the most profitable exercises of my life...my only regret is that I didn't learn it sooner.

Wendy Widder

Author, Living Whole Without Your Better Half and A Match Made in Heaven

For additional information, please contact:

Dr. Michael Wittmer
Director of the Center for Christian Worldview
Grand Rapids Theological Seminary
1001 E. Beltline N.E.
Grand Rapids, MI 49525
Tel. 616-222-1513
Fax 616-222-1502
Email: mwittmer@cornerstone.edu