Dr. J.P. Moreland
Confident Ministry Amidst Cultural Chaos – A Worldview Approach

The core issue in understanding and relating to our current culture is the concept of Worldview. A distinct worldview underlies every cultural form, and our personal worldview determines the degree to which we surrender ourselves to any culture. Effective ministry today requires an understanding of the three competing worldviews struggling for dominance. During this conference, Dr. J.P. Moreland* will:

• Expose the current worldview struggle and nature of secularism
• Demonstrate how worldview preaching can help people overcome cultural tensions which keep them from growing
• Explain and evaluate Post-modernism
• Teach us how to build a case for faith in the contemporary setting
• Sharpen our ability to minister within secularism

Session One:  Worldview Struggle in our Secular Setting—This session explains the nature of secularism and how we got to such a secular culture, and explains the main tensions among the three chief worldviews in current conflict. 

Session Two:  Post-Modernism as a Worldview—Part One - This explains postmodernism as a set of ideas and offers an evaluation of a postmodernist worldview and a Christian appropriation of it. 

Session Three:  Post-Modernism as a Worldview—Part Two

Session Four:  Worldview Integration and Worldview Preaching—This session identifies the tensions that keep people from growing that result from the secular culture and explains how worldview preaching helps resolve these.

*J. P. Moreland is professor of philosophy at Talbot School of Theology, Biola University in La Mirada, California. Dr. Moreland has 4 earned degrees: a B.S. in chemistry from the University of Missouri, a Th.M. in theology from Dallas Seminary, an M.A. in philosophy from the University of California-Riverside, and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Southern California. He has planted 3 churches, spoken and debated on over 175 college campuses around the country, and served with Campus Crusade for Christ for 10 years. Dr. Moreland has authored or co-authored 12 books, including Scaling the Secular City; Does God Exist?; Immortality: The Other Side of Death; The Creation Hypothesis; Love Your God With All Your Mind, and Body and Soul, and has been published in over 40 journals. He and his wife, Hope, have two daughters, Ashley and Allison.

Recorded March 7, 2005 at a Leading Edge Conference hosted by the Howard G. Hendricks Center for Christian Leadership.