Exploring Worldview in Christian Witness is both an introductory undergraduate course in worldview study and a dialogical method for sharing faith at a personal level. Considers how understanding another person’s worldview through asking excellent questions leads to a variety of approaches to evangelism in the context of diverse and global 21st-century cultures.
The course is designed to help students understand the relationship between human values and worldview. The course surveys twelve value orientation domains and examines how each domain shapes the worldview of people and communities around the world.
Over eight weeks, students explore how worldview diversity affects Christian witness and interpersonal relationships. Learners develop the vocabulary and practical skills needed to engage respectfully with people whose values and assumptions differ from their own. The course emphasizes personal reflection, real-world application, and conversational skills alongside textbook content.
Each week follows a consistent rhythm of reading, personal reflection, peer discussion, field-based interviewing, and hands-on application. This repeating structure ensures that students not only understand worldview concepts intellectually but also practice applying them in everyday relationships and missional contexts. The course concludes with a comprehensive reflective essay that integrates learning across all eight weeks.
Participating in God's mission of redemption today is multicultural, and all ministry is carried on in a multicultural context. Worldviews significantly impact how the message of the Gospel is perceived. This course explores the dynamics of culture as an ever-changing framework for understanding reality and guides students to engage persons of various worldviews through ongoing conversations based on assumptions people have about life.
Effective witness to others begins with understanding what they value and how they see the world. This course gives undergraduate students a foundational framework for that understanding—one grounded in both cross-cultural research and biblical theology. By developing worldview literacy early in their academic and missional formation, students are better prepared for courses across the university curriculum.
Grounded in biblical theology, this course frames worldview literacy as essential to Christian witness, connecting cross-cultural research with Scripture's vision of redemption and the Gospel's engagement with diverse human cultures.
Students develop missional formation early by learning to engage diverse worldviews in 21st-century multicultural contexts, preparing them for effective participation in God's redemptive mission across the courses in the university curriculum.
Drawing on cross-cultural research and the realities of global, multicultural mission, the course helps students understand culture as a dynamic framework shaping how the Gospel is received in any given context.
The course surveys twelve value orientation domains to build intercultural competency, equipping students to navigate worldview diversity respectfully and engage people whose cultural assumptions about life differ significantly from their own.
Through field-based interviewing, peer discussion, and conversational skill development, students apply worldview concepts in real relationships and missional settings, not merely as intellectual content but as practiced, embodied competencies.
A weekly rhythm of personal reflection, interviewing, and hands-on application, culminating in a comprehensive reflective essay, ensures students are personally transformed—not just informed—by their engagement with worldview diversity.
