As I write this post I am sitting in the airport in Paris waiting for my flight to Yaounde, Cameroon. Over the past decade I have made more trips to various parts of Africa than I can count. Yet each time I make the journey I find myself having to make the shift from a place entrenched in the worldview of the west where I was born and raised to a place with a very different way of looking at life through the eyes of the worldview of Africa.I have discovered that it is much easier to see the flaws and the faults of worldviews other than one's own. I imagine this is true because we are so accustomed to our own ways of looking at and understanding life that it is hard to see the ways our culture and worldview color the way we see and respond to life each day. However, the contrasting perspectives of other worldviews are often obvious to spot.
The easy thing for most people to do when they first experience another culture is to assume that their culture's way of seeing things is right and the new cultures' way of seeing things is wrong. In reality neither our western materialistic worldview or an African animistic worldview are "right." There are significant aspects of both ways of looking at life, the world and people that are in opposition to a Biblical worldview.
The following article about the ministry of one of our partners in Africa, Samaritan Strategy Africa, is a good reminder that when people live out a Biblical worldview their lives are dramatically changed. http://www.worldmag.com/articles/19860
I would encourage you to check out The Disciple Nations Alliance (http://www.disciplenations.org/) and Samaritan Strategy Africa (http://www.samaritan-strategy-africa.org/) websites for more good information in Biblical worldview training and the impact in people's lives.
