To summarize Goheen/Bartholomew's book I would say that it presented some really interesting topics of what the world was and how our world and culture has transformed so dramatically in the last 200 years, even in the last 100 years. This book gives us all insite into what a real biblical worldview, a minority worldview, and a majority worldview look like, and how as Christians and followers of God, we can come together as a community (church family) and really learn to live and function and socialize in the world that we live in today.

The Christian worldview must begin with the gospel, the good news. We as Christians have to know that the bible is the story of the world and we have to find our place in it. The gospel is the truth of all our human lives. If we begin to believe in the bible, it will shape out life, and if not then other things that are of and in this world will shape our life. As churches are also a part of the good news, they need to keep making their home in the bible and make the kingdom known. The church is very essential to the gospel. The Christian worldview is sometimes called Christocentric-which is focused on the Christ and fulfillment of salvations history and embracing the Old Testament view of creation. We need to make the scripture and bible reference points in our Christian worldview, and apply scripture to our lives. Christians need to make it known that "Jesus is Lord." (Rom. 10:9) God has restored us so we need to live for him, and we were created by him to be like him and we are to have an intimate relationship with him. Salvation is the story of  a comprehensive restoration of our creation, and we need to understand that salvation is progressive and it goes throughout our entire life, as we progress in our faith, and this is also to be done by the church. Sin is what is corrupting God's creation and for us to have a biblical worldview, we must know that God's salvation is the one that restores this creation.

The worldview of the minortiy is one that i think everyone at one point in there life has seen through their eyes and felt one day or another. The worldview of the minority is a hateful one, one that sees nothing goiong for them and everything going for everyone else. The minorities know that they are minorities and live with that mindset, one that makes their worldview one that I hope I never have to live out. I think that Christians too often look out and see the minority but cannot understand the worldview that they have, and therefore think that they cannot help.

Although this century is based on material things and what feedback we do/do not get from people we as Christians have to do what is called in the book "double listening." This term means that we have to incarnate the gospel in our own time and place, listen to the scripture and Christian tradition, as well as what is going on in the surrounding culture. This is the only way to live for Christ in the 21st century because we are living in the postmodern world, where nothing is done the right way almost all the time. Since we are living in a world of consumerism, where everyting is derived from how much stuff we have, we as Christians have to keep away from that and make sure that we are idolizing God, and not "stuff." This is part of the reason that people are not happy because their needs are never met with consumerism, which is why we have to get and understand that our happyness comes from our personal relationship with God and nothing else. In this century we are living at a crossroads, as the book says, and we have to bear witness in life, word, and deed to the kingdom. We have to participate in the culture we are living in but we are not to be of the culture or reflect it. Christians have to struggle and fight for what God proclaimed in the bible. The term "against the world but fo the world" is really what we have to be like in this 21st century to be able to live, and we as his people need to be encouraging one another to do this.

Here are some areas in the public where a biblical worldview needs to be lived out better in this century: business-this is where we are called to serve the lord and we need to know how to be God-like and not have distored views and be fair, Politics-this is part of God's order and the government has been instituted by God for our own good and we as Christians should be model citizens of this government, sports and competition-these are God's gifts and we are to enjoy them because that is who God made us as, diverse and imaginative, creativity and art-this is the whole doctrine of creation, we are art and God made us all different, scholarship-vital place for Christians to be involved in, and education-we need to be part of it so we can minister, so we can learn skills for life and support ourselves/family, know the goal of education.