Check out this great article by Chuck Colson on worldview and how it colors even the way we watch movies.

It’s a short story about Chris who went to a worldview training camp and suddenly saw movies in a new light! It’s a fast read but very interesting! Hope it encourages you to pursue more worldview training!

Here is an excerpt:

“A few years ago, a teenager named Chris attended a worldview training program run by Summit Ministries. He learned a great deal and had a great time. But by the end of the intensive, two-week program, he was exhausted.

As Chris wrote to John Stonestreet, executive director of Summit, “I had never had to think so hard…before in my life! So I decided I was just going to veg out for the next few days.”

When some friends invited Chris to a movie, he thought it would be a good way to relax and recover from all that hard thinking. They went to see the latest version of War of the Worlds.

But the film wasn’t the mental vacation Chris expected it to be. As he explained in his letter, “Mr. Stonestreet, I tried to veg out during the movie, but I just couldn’t. I am watching it and thinking, ‘Wait a minute, that’s secular humanism, and wait a minute, that’s not true. And, what do they mean by that, and how do they know that’s true!’”

Chris then joked, “I just wanted you to know that you ruined my movie!”

After the film ended, Chris and his friends went out for food and talked about the themes in the movie. His friends were astonished at how much Chris had gotten out of the film. As he told Stonestreet, “They kept asking me, ‘How did you see that? How do you know all that stuff?’ It was a great conversation. And I [learned] I can’t just turn this worldview thing off!”’….

Read the rest of the story here: Can’t Turn This Worldview Thing Off

I highly encourage you to make the most of this summer to participate in some kind of worldview training, if you have not done so already!

• Can you think of any other movies that made you go “wait a minute…” in terms of the worldview it presents?