The first national survey of the worldview of Americans conducted by the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University (@crcacu) shows that although seven out of ten consider themselves to be Christian, only 6% actually possess a biblical worldview.
Bible Gateway interviewed veteran researcher and author George Barna (@George_Barna) about the American Worldview Inventory 2020.
What is the American Worldview Inventory 2020 and why was it conducted?
George Barna: Having done a very wide range of research studies since the early 1980s, I’ve concluded that if we want to significantly impact American culture, we have to start with peoples’ worldview. Everybody has one, but few people think about it or articulate it.
A worldview is like the operating system of a computer; it directs our choices and determines what we do. Our worldview is the filter through which we experience, interpret, and respond to the world.
Ideally, people will develop a biblical worldview, but that’s just one worldview choice of many they have. Because there’s little serious research about worldview, and no tracking studies of the prevalence of a biblical worldview, we’ve initiated this nationwide annual survey to give leaders the data they need to make better decisions about how to move people toward biblical thought and behavior, and to raise greater awareness about the importance of worldview in our lives.
The research reports that fewer than one out of five (19%) born-again adults in the USA hold a biblical worldview. Explain what the study considers to be a biblical worldview.
George Barna: The survey used 51 questions about belief and behavior to measure worldview. (We have a version we use among our students at Arizona Christian University every year that contains 96 worldview questions.) Those questions are divided into eight categories:
- Bible, truth, and morality
- Value of life and family
- God, creation, and history
- Human nature and character
- Lifestyle, behavior, and relationships
- Purpose and calling
- Sin, salvation, and relationship with God
- Faith practices
Over the 25 years that I’ve been measuring worldview, one thing that emerged is that nobody I have yet interviewed—and those studies have encompassed more than 20,000 people—has had a pure worldview. Everyone has a syncretistic worldview—drawing on perspectives from a variety of worldviews. So the way we categorize someone as having a worldview is based on them answering 80% or more of the belief questions and 80% or more of the behavior questions in ways that are consistent with biblical teaching.
https://www.biblegateway.com/blog/2020/05/extremely-low-percentage-of-americans-hold-biblical-worldview-an-interview-with-george-barna/
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