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Thirty years ago, evangelicals started talking about “worldviews.”  I first remember hearing it from Francis Schaeffer. It began innocently enough–as an attempt on the part of evangelicals to become a little more thoughtful about the faith. But a hundred years of separating the head from the heart, as if there are two homes within which to house your faith–and we know which one is superior–had taken their toll. Soon “worldview” was reduced to another piece of the evangelical apologetic armor, a little pop anthropology to go with our pop psychology.   People sent their high school kids away for a month to learn about “the Christian worldview” and its nemesis “the secular humanist worldview.”
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Many of you are cringing. Not to worry, this post won’t be a laundry list of American evangelicals at our worst.   There’s only one thing worth mentioning and it trumps all the others: at our worst, we’re more concerned with being right than being evangelical.  It’s the saddest thing about American evangelicalism today, how much passion we have for being right and how little for being evangelical.  Don’t get me wrong, there’s nothing wrong with being right, unless it keeps you from being what you are meant to be.  And in this case it does.
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