Reflection on Worldview

Worldview is certainly and interesting and very meaningful concept; one which we should be more familiar with. Do you recognize what your own worldview is.  Is there a worldview that is true or in accordance with an ultimate reality? Or are all worldviews legitimate?

Everybody has a worldview, but I don't think too many people have taken the time to consider what there's is, as well as the implications of it, the origins of it....where that particular worldview will take them in life, etc.

A worldview can be thought of as a pair of invisible eyeglasses that we might not be conscious of all the time, but that cause us to see and perceive the world in a certain way. These glasses literally affect everything related to ourselves: relationships, goals, values, morals, ultimate meaning, etc.

I can actually remember my first interaction with that concept (worldview), and it was about 3 and 1/2 years ago while I was attended Oral Roberts University.  I was required to go to a lecture for an English Comp class where this gentlemen was giving a lecture on Christian worldview. It was at that time a new concept, and it didn't carry much weight with it. It was stored away in my memory file storage box, unaccessed for a for years. When I began to understand the implications (really being consciousness) that all men are created in the image of God, and what that would mean for me, and my relationships with people, that file was pulled out again.
 It is quite impactful if we really contemplate it and have our hearts exercised by that reality. That first chapter of Genesis is maybe the most overlooked and taken-for-granted chapter of the whole bible, and might contain the most greatly missed significance for our lives, as well as those around us.  Sorry for straying from the theme of worldview, but I had to slip mine in there a little. 

I was referred to a man's personal website (John Michael Lane) that deals extensively with the understanding that mankind bears the image of God, and he has a very good section on worldview.  I think it would be a very healthy personal exercise to go through that and kind of think that out, as far as the questions that he asks in there to find out what our particular worldview is.  Worldview exercises.
Link to John Michael Lane's blog-style website
especially pay attention to the first section : 

1. Weltanschauung: An Introduction

Having said all of that, I would have to give an honorable mention to a man named Francis Schaeffer (1912-1984). In 1976, Schaeffer did a 12 part serious titled How should we then live? The Rise and Decline of Western Though and Culture.

These are available on Youtube, in 10 parts (each being about 30 minutes), and they are awesome. He gives a very somber yet engaging analysis of how and why we in the western culture think the way we do (aka our worldview). I've watched all of them that are available on Youtube, and I would highly, highly recommend them, even though there were done in the 70's.  Timeless treasure