The way we see the world matters. Our worldview, the lens through which we see the world, shapes everything—our thoughts, our relationships, even how we understand God. If our lens is distorted, our entire perception of reality is equally distorted. Our understanding of God, ourselves and others will be opaque, obscure and oblique. (Oh no!)
In The Origin of Worldview and Identity, you will be stepping into the instructional narrative of Moses as communicated to a people who had only known slavery and servitude under a despotic ruler committed to enslaving the world to create his own empire. It’s a worldview of separation sourced in scarcity. For the captive Israelites, the worldview of the Pharaoh was the only conceivable worldview, and it was without an alternative. How or why would the Israelites ever question the narrative in which they found themselves? Would you? Everywhere the Israelite slave brickmaker looked, they saw a world dominated by the rich and powerful, where enough was never enough. The poor and defenseless were relegated to forced economic production to increase the wealth and prosperity of rulers, but they never experienced it themselves. There was no escape from suffering and conflict. What about our world today?
With God’s presence and power, Moses brings liberation. Not only liberation from the physical yoke of slavery, but also liberation from the lie-based worldview that continually enslaves humanity. In the Genesis narrative, Moses is not simply telling a creation story; he’s rectifying a broken worldview and restoring humanity’s lost identity. He’s inviting the Israelites and us to see the world through the eyes of connection. This is the true worldview. The Connection Worldview is the one God established from the very beginning. In this worldview, we find purpose, identity and belonging. We see that we were made for a right relationship with God, ourselves, each other and creation itself.
In this study, you will discover how Moses helped the Israelites return to the true human origin story. You’ll discover how you, too, have lost track of the true human story and how you might also move from bondage into freedom. You can stop living in fear. You can recover what it means to live in God in love. You can remember who you truly are and begin to live fearlessly in your true identity.
It all begins here, where everything begins, in the stories of Genesis.