UNIV104-B28_The Literature Led Lifestyle: A Personal Take On the Biblical Worldview

The Literature Led Lifestyle: A Personal Take On the Biblical Worldview

There is a relative quality between a Biblical worldview and the manner in which I conduct my approach to just about everything in life. This personal approach I have unknowingly applied to my engagements with life long ago, but it is more recognizable now in my recent years. It is more apparent to me now because for one I am older; and secondly because I have now given this a name which now has me more aware about when, where, and how I conduct my biblical worldview. The approach the I have personally labelled, and even use in my social communication so that others can have a better understanding where I am coming from, I simply call it a “literature-led lifestyle— nothing fancy, yet, personal and easily understood. This is a strong, if not the strongest, fundamental for communication and interpretation to be learned, understood, and applied to the world inside us and to the world among us.

Defining a biblical worldview I would suggest that it would be more simple to elaborate on since by Nature and the evidence that reveals a natural order to all things is undoubtedly ordained by God. This natural order or “sacred guideline" bestowed to us really when ultimately deduced, is truly meant to bring us back to Him. Thus, remaining faithful by abiding through His word and His holy instructions woven into our reality is the relationship we must deeply bond ourselves with. Once we have accepted Him as our only means for spiritual survival, and as our savior: for he is the Way, the Truth, and the Life and by no man can he enter into the Kingdom of God but through He alone and ‘tis when we see the path to Light (KJV Jn. 14.6). However, following this divine instruction is what us humans have the difficulty with the most because we are creatures of fault and by our sinful nature we desire to fill ourselves with selfish and rebellious conduct.

It is observably more compelling to conduct ourselves in a “walking in the Spirit" type of manner amongst our brethren in Christian-social settings such as church, gatherings, and even as a student of Liberty University. As Christians, our preconceived intentions are to exemplify a Christ-like persona, though, more often than it should, our expectations do not always conduct themselves this way because we leave doors ajar, pockets loose, and create paths for sin and self to take shape. For instance, how could a student of Liberty University develop a stronger biblical worldview, and thus, strengthening a close walk with our Lord. This circumstance is where the phraseology "the classroom doesn't leave the school once school is over,” or something to that degree. The same thing applies to church. The church isn't really a building but the embodiment of Christ living in us and through us.

By continuously “walking in the spirit,” a very powerful set of holy words did a wonder in myself at a revival on November 2025 after being gifted a book for free titled The Revived Life by evangelist John R. Van Gelderen. I started to read this book after the revival that Thursday night. The words “walking in the Spirit” had never been uttered to me so closely as it did that night (Van Gelderen). These very words would then find themselves anchored to my soul there on out. So, as a student of Liberty University this “walking in the Spirit" is what needs to be fastened to our inner being as much as we can and as best to our ability for serving our Creator.

According to the “Diversity at Liberty University” video, Dr. Chris Gnanakan defines culture as a way of life. (Gnanakan 1:03) God created these diversities among men so that we can be unified by difference through His loving grace. There lays much controversy with this naturally and divine diversity ordained by God because man has desire to create its own “god" by developing ways that are both humanistic and collective with not much room for diversity. What a sad, somber, dull, and counter-progressive world that would be. A world constructed by a “cookie-cutter" man-made system, as Dr. Gnanakan puts it in the video, that puts us apart from God stripping of us from the purpose behind culture and diversity (Gnanakan 1:03). What I have learned is the continuous reminder that is necessary to understand how God's design with cultural diversity is not to only seen as something contradicting and conflicting, but rather when show through God's love and light, we can really see the necessity for these cultural difference to actually unify us and fortify us for the better all while serving Him. If not for a world bound with opposition, there would be no need for purpose.

Works Cited

The Scofield Study Bible: King James Version. Edited by C.I. Scofield, New American Library. 2003.

Van Gelderen, John R. The Revived Life. CLC Publications, 2012.

“Watch: Diversity at Liberty University.” Canvas, Liberty University, n.d.,

cnvas.liberty.edu. Course video.