Learning to view the world around us through the eyes of the Lord may sound like a worthwhile goal, but what does it really mean, and how do we propose to actually accomplish this? With all the bible studies, books, programs and seminars, how is this approach to studying the Bible any different?

More than any other time in history there is an abundance of information available about the Bible. There is literally a specialized study on just about every topic you can imagine. But all too often these specialized studies provide us with a little bit of insight into a particular area but don't show how they're connected to other major teachings in the Bible. They ignore the "big picture".

I relate this issue to a kind of mental office desk. For example, each topic we learn about in life is like a piece of paper. Every time we learn something new, our desk gets a little busier with paper. Before long, our entire desk is filled with all these teachings just scattered and stuffed wherever they seem to fit at the time. Do you feel like your knowledge of the Bible is pretty scattered at the moment? Keep reading, there is a solution!

Here is where this particular study is different. When you learn at the worldview level, you won't be adding to the clutter of your mental desk, rather you will have the opportunity to begin the process of organizing and making sense of what you have previously learned. It's like a big filing cabinet with all its proper storage drawers and labeled folders. By studying the Bible in the order it was revealed and learning how to tie each of the major teachings together, you will essentially create for yourself a mental filing system. This will be helpful moving forward as you continue to study the Bible as well as give you the tools to go back through all those messy papers in your mind and file some of them away in your worldview; others you will want to discard.

Ok...maybe this is a little out there, but this organizing process reminds me of a cartoon I saw as a kid: Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land. In this episode the Spirit asks Donald to play a mental game, but he finds Donald's mind to be too cluttered. After some mental house-cleaning, Donald is able to discover some cool inventions made possible through math. If you want you can see this part, push play then move the playhead to 2:02 and watch until 1:28.

As you get started, I'm not sure if you will have dust and moths coming out of your ears like Donald did, but you can imagine what it would be like to see the world through a more organized approach to thinking. I can honestly say that this study has done that very thing for me. It has built up my faith in God's Word! It has changed my life and stabilized my understanding of what the Bible says. I literally can understand the major flow of the scriptures and have the "big picture" context in my mind.