How do you look at the world around you? What is the solid ground upon which you make decisions in a world of sinking sand? Where do you start to make sense of right and wrong, good, better, and best?

One of our primary goals at Naperville Christian Academy is to equip students with a Biblical worldview. A worldview is a person’s view of all of life. It is the lens through which all experiences are seen. A worldview includes the assumptions and beliefs that we hold, consciously or subconsciously, about our environment. A worldview shapes our interpretation of the world around us and provides answers to the fundamental questions of origin, purpose, and destiny. A worldview, therefore, helps us form our answers to the essential questions of life itself: “Who am I?” “Why am I here?” and “Where am I going?”

Everyone has a worldview. One of the primary places in which a worldview is learned is in our school systems. There is no such thing as a values-neutral educational system. A “values-neutral” educational system is simply one that is teaching naturalism, also known as secular humanism, a worldview in which nothing supernatural can exist or impact how we live our lives. One way or another, a worldview is imparted to a child as that child passes through an educational system. Our public schools may try to have a values-neutral educational system, but it is impossible. Paul’s instruction to the believers in the book of Colossians is as applicable in the 21st century as it was in the 1st century: “See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ.” (Colossians 2:8)

Naperville Christian Academy equips students with a Biblical worldview so that they can process everything around them via the lens of Scripture. A Biblical worldview gives a student a fixed point of reference– the life, death, and resurrection of Christ. Christianity, by its very nature, forms a worldview, one based on Christ and then in turn being transformed to His image, an image different than that of the world. (Romans 12:2)

All of truth is God’s truth and all that is beautiful finds its source in Him, the Beautiful Creator. Why then leave a portion of truth or beauty out of the classroom? Our intent is not to isolate our children from the world, but rather to give them the tools to be able to deal wisely with the world. By giving students a fixed standard upon which everything is to be evaluated, we do not need to hide or avoid everything that is non-Christian. Therefore, all legitimate scholarship, including non-Christian literature and art, can be evaluated in light of God’s Word. This allows students to be “in the world but not of the world.” This prepares our students so that they will no longer be “tossed here and there by waves, and carried about by every wind of doctrine.” (Ephesians 4:14)

Giving our students a Biblical worldview also allows them to adequately share their faith. How can one share that which has not been adequately learned? And why would one who has total assurance of all that is in God’s word be afraid to hold it up to any challenge or other worldview? Faith in the God of truth can be defended as truth unashamedly from any attack. “But in your hearts set apart Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect.” (1 Peter 3:15)

The need for Biblical education is described well in Deuteronomy chapters 4-11:

DT 4:2 Do not add to what I command you and do not subtract from it, but keep the commands of the LORD your God that I give you.
DT 4:9 Only be careful, and watch yourselves closely so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen or let them slip from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and to their children after them. 10 Remember the day you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, when he said to me, “Assemble the people before me to hear my words so that they may learn to revere me as long as they live in the land and may teach them to their children.”
DT 5:32 So be careful to do what the LORD your God has commanded you; do not turn aside to the right or to the left. 33 Walk in all the way that the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live and prosper and prolong your days in the land that you will possess.
DT 6:1 These are the commands, decrees and laws the LORD your God directed me to teach you to observe in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess, 2 so that you, your children and their children after them may fear the LORD your God as long as you live by keeping all his decrees and commands that I give you, and so that you may enjoy long life. 3 Hear, O Israel, and be careful to obey so that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, promised you.
DT 6:4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. 5 Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. 6 These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. 7 Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 8 Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. 9 Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.