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Michael Goheen

Dr. Mike Goheen occupies the Geneva Chair of Worldview and Religious Studies at Trinity Western University, and is a Teaching Fellow in Mission at Regent College, Vancouver. A long-time pastor, worldwide lecturer, and author, he speaks and writes on mission and worldview for folk in many different confessional traditions. He lives with his wife of 32 years, Marnie, in Burnaby, British Columbia, and has four married adult children and three grandchildren. His favourite activity is playing with his grandchildren and working out daily to keep up the stamina to do so!

Missional Code of Conduct

The church has awakened to its missional identity—and its responsibility to witness without exacerbating the tensions of our world.

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Missional Code of Conduct

The church has awakened to its missional identity—and its responsibility to witness without exacerbating the tensions of our world.

Reading the Bible . . . and articulating a worldview

The story of the Bible tells us the way the world really is—a normative claim, a public truth. But it needs to be understood as one single unfolding story; if reduced to a collection of moral bits, systematic-theological bits, devotional bits, historical-critical bits, narrative bits, and homiletical bits, it can easily be absorbed into the reigning story of culture instead of challenging it. Then, of course, the Christian’s basic beliefs in the biblical story must form the blueprint through which s/he sees human existence and the cultural task. In other words, articulating a worldview is the natural answering of life’s most foundational questions. Here’s how.