Ok, I am living a life of polyponderingism. I know that is not a word, but this is the randomness with which my brain is working. I am stuck in James as my last posting indicates (humbling ourselves before God), work related ponderings (this is another blog/wiki area), my doctoral studies (now that I have the go ahead with my project), and my newest pondering point, my personal life platform.
Now the components of this platform are not new, but tying them together in a way that make sense to me is. I have posted about parts of this in the past, review my posting about beliefs a while back. I have been involved with a ministry call Heart of a Warrior for awhile now. One piece of this ministry is to look at our beliefs, values, worldview, motives, and behaviors. In the past this has always been presented as a liner progression. However, lately I have been pondering the idea that this is not as liner as I once thought. For that matter it is much more complex that I once thought. To this end I have started to work on the idea of a personal life platform. This platform is used to ground us in that things we believe and live them out.
I believe that everyone already has a personal life platform, but they may not be able to articulate it. The things we say we believe, the way we live our life, how we treat others, and how we respond to the circumstances around us all reflect on our personal life platform. Now some will say that this is our worldview, and in part they are correct because our worldview is part of our personal life platform. What I want to be able to do is explore the foundational beliefs that inform our worldview, look at the operational beliefs that flow out of our worldview, identify the values that are a result of our operational beliefs, and then examine the motives and behaviors that arise from our values. As a Christ-follower I want to make sure that all aspects of my personal life platform are grounded in scripture and help me to live a life that is honoring to God and the people I interact with.
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