Not only is this one of my favorite German words, it is one every Christian ought to have a clue about. Weltanschauung means “world view” and like it or not, you have one. You have a “world view” by which you judge reality, truth, beauty, fairness, right-vs-wrong, and what you find appealing or shameful or [...]
Death to self includes purging your conscience, but first comes the realization that your conscience was constructed apart from the Holy Spirit. In Galatians Paul tells the church what it means to be crucified with Christ, and therefore crucified to the world (Galatians 2:20; Galatians 6:14). Upon redemption, the believer is given the ‘Spirit of [...]