Christian Worldview Week Focuses on Authentic Human Flourishing
Posted on: March 5, 2026
Tigerville, SC—”A true worldview should be able to ground and explain moral instincts and intuitions.”
Those reflections were from Jamie Dew, president of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, during his Christian Worldview Week chapel message at NGU earlier this week.
The annual event ran from March 2-4, emphasizing the importance of authentic human flourishing.
Andrew Walker, professor of ethics at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, presented a message on the worldview of a prodigal culture, comparing today’s culture to the parable of the prodigal son in Luke 15.
“We’re not suffering from a lack of progress. We have a lot of progress to measure by. We are suffering from progress detached from truth,” said Walker.
Walker gave three forces of erosion to this detachment from truth: secularism, barbarism, and nihilism. While these forces combat the Christian worldview, there is hope that only the gospel of Christ can give. Walker homes in on the point where sin disorders, grace reorders.
“[The Christian faith] helps us see that hope is anchored in resurrection, not in progress for the mere sake of more progress,” said Walker.
“The gospel is not an escape from the world, it is a restoration of the world’s meaning,” he continued.
Christian Worldview Week continued Tuesday, March 3 with a lecture from Dew, and concluded on Wednesday, March 4.
Dew spoke on Psalm 19 and how God has revealed himself to mankind.
Dew argued that nature alone is not sufficient to truly know God, referencing Scripture from Romans 1 and Acts 17 to defend his point.
“While we may be able to argue from nature that there has to be a God, there’s not enough in nature to give us the specificity of what we really need to know about that God so that we can walk with him, be redeemed by him, and bring him honor and glory,” he said.
Dew stressed that God reveals himself more fully through his Word for our benefit.
“When God reveals, God reveals so that he can redeem, restore, and transform,” he said.
“It is only when we recognize that…when he reveals himself to us that he has the intent of transforming us and radically changing who we are in the deepest parts of our being,” Dew continued.
He encouraged students at the end of his message to obey the Word of God for God’s instruction is always for his glory and our good.
“When we obey the Lord’s commands, we actually flourish,” said Dew. “When we obey the instruction of the Lord, we actually find life.”
