Who Are You Becoming?
“You become what you behold, whether to restoration or to ruin.”
I shared that sentence a few weeks ago while reflecting on Paul’s call to gaze upon the glory of Christ. Something is shaping you—forming your values, your instincts, your vision of the world. The question is what.
One way to name this is worldview—the assumptions and beliefs about how life works that quietly shape everything else. As one author puts it, those who don’t consciously examine their worldview end up “catching” it “the same way they might catch a cold—they absorb it from the culture around them.”¹
And that culture is not neutral. The god of this world is present and active (2 Corinthians 4:4). There are forces—seen and unseen—working to pull us from the truth through false doctrine, human cunning, and deceitful schemes (Ephesians 4:14). If we are not actively beholding the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ through the reading, study, and meditation of Scripture (2 Corinthians 3:18), we will simply absorb the world’s vision of reality instead.
This is why we have the Colson Fellowship—one of the five fellowships of The Anselm Institute. It exists to help covenant members cultivate a robust biblical worldview, one particularly equipped to address the counter-worldview of our day. The fellowship runs August through May. You’ll engage curated resources throughout the week and gather monthly with other Westview members to process and wrestle with the material together. The curriculum follows a four-fold progression:
I won’t pretend this is easy. The Colson Fellowship is a significant commitment—ten months of redirected habits and priorities in your life and schedule. But we have been charged by King Jesus to make disciples. Your children, your neighbors, your colleagues—they are all being shaped by something too. Are you equipped to lead them with clarity, to commend Christ against bad ideas with lasting consequences?
If you want to learn more, visit our website—or better yet, come to the “Taste of the Colson Fellowship Brunch” at the Farlands' home on May 2.
I shared that sentence a few weeks ago while reflecting on Paul’s call to gaze upon the glory of Christ. Something is shaping you—forming your values, your instincts, your vision of the world. The question is what.
One way to name this is worldview—the assumptions and beliefs about how life works that quietly shape everything else. As one author puts it, those who don’t consciously examine their worldview end up “catching” it “the same way they might catch a cold—they absorb it from the culture around them.”¹
And that culture is not neutral. The god of this world is present and active (2 Corinthians 4:4). There are forces—seen and unseen—working to pull us from the truth through false doctrine, human cunning, and deceitful schemes (Ephesians 4:14). If we are not actively beholding the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ through the reading, study, and meditation of Scripture (2 Corinthians 3:18), we will simply absorb the world’s vision of reality instead.
This is why we have the Colson Fellowship—one of the five fellowships of The Anselm Institute. It exists to help covenant members cultivate a robust biblical worldview, one particularly equipped to address the counter-worldview of our day. The fellowship runs August through May. You’ll engage curated resources throughout the week and gather monthly with other Westview members to process and wrestle with the material together. The curriculum follows a four-fold progression:
- Truth — Seeing Reality as It Truly Is
- Hope — Living Within God’s Redemptive Story
- Identity — Becoming Who We Are in Christ
- Calling — Living Faithfully in Every Sphere of Life
I won’t pretend this is easy. The Colson Fellowship is a significant commitment—ten months of redirected habits and priorities in your life and schedule. But we have been charged by King Jesus to make disciples. Your children, your neighbors, your colleagues—they are all being shaped by something too. Are you equipped to lead them with clarity, to commend Christ against bad ideas with lasting consequences?
If you want to learn more, visit our website—or better yet, come to the “Taste of the Colson Fellowship Brunch” at the Farlands' home on May 2.
¹ Making Sense of Your World, Phillips, Brown, and Stonestreet, p. 19.