College Faith

College Faith


#24: Why Christian Students Must Understand Their and Other’s Worldviews

September 01, 2022

My guest today is Mike Schutt, Executive Director of the Worldview Academy. Mike has been thinking, writing, and consulting on worldview formation for over 30 years, including helping law students bring their worldview into the practice of law. His thoughts on worldview and Law have been published in his Redeeming Law: Christian Calling and the Legal Profession (InterVarsity Press, 2007).



In this podcast we discuss:



  • What a worldview is
  • Why it is so important to understand worldviews
  • The benefits of living according to the biblical worldview
  • How Mike discovered the importance of worldviews during college 
  • How worldview issues permeate all university classes
  • Ways Christian students have faltered due to not understanding worldviews (especially related to views of knowledge and truth)
  •  How we are shaped by our culture’s worldview, often without knowing it
  • The main worldviews we should understand
  • Understanding worldview as both ideas and loves
  • The relationship of worldview to our actions, wisdom and flourishing
  • Why Christian students struggle so much with the scientific naturalist worldview
  • How to evaluate worldviews and develop a robust and consistent biblical worldview
  • Three simple questions to evalue any worldview claim made in classes or conversations
  • The relationship between spiritual disciplines and living out the biblical worldview
  • Ways your local church can help you develop your worldview
  • Two questions to ask others in your church (or on campus) to find worldview mentors (and eventually mentor others)
  • Why the Christian worldview is superior to all others
  • Ways students can more fully live out their Christian worldview
  • Changing ways students are interacting with Scripture

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