[1] On adults, teenagers, and worldview, see George Barna, Think Like Jesus: Make the Right Decision Every Time (Nashville: Integrity Publishing, 2003), p. 23. On pastors and worldview, see http://www.barna.org/cgi-bin/PagePressRelease.asp?PressReleaseID=156& Reference=F (accessed March 8, 2004).  The Southern Baptists had the highest percentage of pastors with a biblical worldview (71%), while the Methodists were lowest among the seven segments evaluated (27%). Among the other segments examined, 57% of pastors of Baptist churches (other than Southern Baptist) had a biblical worldview, as did 51% of non-denominational Protestant pastors, 44% of pastors of charismatic or Pentecostal churches, 35% of pastors of black churches, and 28% of those leading mainline congregations.

[2] The criteria are these: (1.) Belief in absolute moral truth; (2) Belief that the Bible is the standard for moral truth; (3) Six core biblical teachings: a. View of the existence and nature of God; b. The sinless life of Jesus Christ; c. The existence of Satan; d. The ability to earn salvation; e. Personal responsibility to share the gospel; f. The reliability of Scripture. From Leading Your Church Forward: The Barna 2003 Seminar, p. 8.

[3] For example, James Sire’s seven worldview questions in The Universe Next Door: A Basic Worldview Catalog, 3^rd ed. (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1997), pp. 17-18. 1. What is prime reality — the really real? 2. What is the nature of external reality, that is, the world around us? 3. What is a human being? 4. What happens to a person at death? 5. Why is it possible to know anything at all? 6. How do we know what is right and wrong? 7. What is the meaning of human history?

[4] Ronald J. Sider, The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience: Why Are Christians Living Just Like the Rest of the World? (Grand Rapids: Baker 2005).

[5] G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy, in Collected Works, vol. 1, ed. David Dooley (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1986), p. 323. He continues this thought by stating immediately afterward: “The mere minimum of the Church would be a deadly ultimatum to the world.”

[6] Walter Brueggemann, Hopeful Imagination: Prophetic Voices in Exile (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1987), p. 25.

[7] Percy B. Shelley, “A Defense of Poetry,” in The Norton Anthology of English Literature, ed. M. H. Abrams, et. al.,, vol. 2 (New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1968, 1962), p. 497.

[8] Alexander Schmemann, “Theology and Liturgy,” in Church, World, Mission (Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1979), p. 131.