Are you weary of hearing about Covid-19, social unrest, and political division? Need some refreshment? Take a break and dive into 31 days of Worldview Wisdom, a Disciple Nations Alliance podcast with Arturo Cuba. From his teaching experience with rural pastors and farmers in Latin America, Arturo brings encouraging insight for every person in every culture.Arturo Cuba is one of the Disciple Nation Alliance’s earliest and most influential trainers. He has creatively discipled people in the biblical worldview in Latin America for over 20 years. In this audio series, he shares his highly practical teaching and examples of transformation.
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Day 1: How I came to know the biblical worldview (00:12:54)
This is Arturo’s story of how he came to understand the idea of a biblical worldview and how this opened up his eyes to many things about his faith, his work, helping the poor, and all of life in general. Question: Arturo talked about having lunch with the mayor of a city and being asked some hard questions. How would you have responded?
Day 2: What this biblical worldview idea has taught me (00:17:35)
Arturo shares more about what this biblical worldview idea has taught him and how it has impacted him and others. Question: Arturo introduces the concept of God promising Biblical prosperity and yet he says it’s not about money. What then do you think this phrase “Biblical prosperity” means? What does it include?
Day 3: We live by our paradigms not by our religious beliefs (00:17:47)
Arturo explains more about paradigms and why it is important that our paradigms are rooted in truth. We make decisions based on our paradigms and our decisions shape our lives. Question: Arturo says it is important that people have truths in their minds as subconscious paradigms so that they will make the right decisions as they walk through life. Let’s say you want a young person to make the decision to stay in school and apply themselves. What’s the paradigm they need in order to make...
Day 4: We make decisions based on our paradigms (00:10:11)
Arturo explains more about paradigms and why it is important that our paradigms are rooted in truth. We make decisions based on our paradigms and our decisions shape our lives. Question: Arturo says it is important that people have truths in their minds as subconscious paradigms so that they will make the right decisions as they walk through life. Let’s say you want a young person to make the decision to stay in school and apply themselves. What’s the paradigm they need in order ...
Day 5: What is a worldview? (00:22:06)
What is a worldview? It’s a word you will not find in the Bible but the idea is clearly there. It is Arturo’s experience that when people really grasp the concept they are immensely helped in their understanding and application of Scripture. Question: The challenge with a worldview is you don’t see it. You don’t even know you have it. It’s subconscious. Why is this also a benefit? Why do you think God made us to have a worldview?
Day 6: How is a worldview formed? (00:24:31)
How is a worldview formed? How does it shape a child’s life? Arturo answers these questions and why worldviews are so difficult to change. Question: Do you know someone who permanently changed some habit or way of thinking after joining the military? What changed in them? Why do you think this happened?
Day 7: The culture we grow up in determines our worldview (00:13:09)
The culture we grow up in determines our worldview. Our culture determines how we see the world and life. It begins with the culture of our family. Question: Arturo says our culture determines our worldview. Can you give an example from your own culture?
Day 8: To be human is to materialize ideas. That’s what we do. (00:12:00)
What defines human beings is that we materialize ideas. This is what every person does. In so doing we materialize poverty and corruption. We also materialize goodness and flourishing. Question: Can you think of an idea that your parent or grandparent materialized that impacted the way you live?
Day 9: Ideas produce consequences – machismo (00:15:09)
Because we materialize ideas our ideas have consequences. In this episode, Arturo looks at the idea of “machismo” in the Latin culture and how this is materialized and the consequences that result. Question: What does it mean to be a man in your culture? What paradigm of manhood does your culture promote or reinforce?
Day 10: Ideas produce consequences – racism (00:07:58)
Arturo talks further about how ideas have consequences and looks specifically at the idea of racism which plagues all cultures. Question: Arturo says that in every community he has ever worked or taught, race has always been an issue. Why is this?
Day 11: Ideas produce consequences – truth produces life and lies produce death (00:08:34)
Ideas have consequences. Truth produces a flourishing life and lies lead to injustice, corruption, and poverty. These are the fruits. Question: People seek wealth and power as ways to flourish or live well. Arturo told of a man who got wealthy and another who got power but both failed at living well. Why did they fail?
Day 12: We need a better theology of sin (00:09:43)
Christian believers are not well educated in how sin works and how it affects our worldview. We need a better theology of sin. Question: Arturo’s point is that a bad worldview is sin. It needs to be identified, repented of, and changed – and change comes through discipleship. Is this your understanding of sin? Is this understanding common in your church?
Day 13: Ideas have consequences – the width of redemption (00:13:13)
In this episode Arturo talks about the meaning of the word redemption because that’s what Jesus wants to give us. He explains the breadth and depth of this redemption. Question: Is your view of Christ’s redemption limited to forgiveness of sin and a restored vertical relationship with God and heaven after you die? According to Arturo, what is the wider redemption God wants to also bring to your life and the lives of others?
Day 14: Your child’s worldview is your responsibility (00:09:08)
Arturo shares from his own experience about the important responsibility of the parent to shape their child’s worldview. Question: Are the children in your life growing in the worldview of the Kingdom? Do they consciously and subconsciously know what’s true and what’s a lie or a deception about God, about themselves, about others?
Day 15: How do we change a worldview? (00:12:40)
How do we change a worldview? A biblical worldview or worldview of the Kingdom is not an automatic result of our Christian conversion. It comes through a process. Question: What fundamental truth are you are currently working to internalize, to make it a natural part of your everyday view of God, and how you view life?
Day 16: Be fruitful! The first command. (00:18:56)
The very first command in the Bible is to be “Be fruitful!” What does that mean? Why is it central to God’s plan for our lives? Question: What does it mean to you to be fruitful -- at your workplace, in your relationship with your family, in your eating, your exercising, your rest, at your hobby, at your school? What does it look like to be fruitful in each of these areas of life?
Day 17: Help your child to be fruitful! (00:07:27)
Every child comes into the world invested by God with great potential. Arturo talks about how to help your child keep the first commandment -- how to help your child to be fruitful. Question: How are you encouraging the children you know to live fruitful lives?
Day 18: God’s development plan for people is like a farmer cultivating a seed. (00:09:44)
Just as the farmer trusts that when he plants a seed and cultivates it there will be fruit, we can trust that when God blesses us and says “Be fruitful!” we can pray and he will help us develop and live fruitful lives. Question: What personal development potential have you not completed and left by the wayside? What would it take to go back and finish developing that potential?
Day 19: Made in the image of God - human life is sacred (00:14:04)
The biblical view of human life is that all human life is sacred because we are made in the image of God and loved by God. Arturo gives examples of what happens when this view or truth is absent. Question: Human life is sacred. What impact has this truth had on your culture? What impact has the absence of this truth had in your culture?
Day 20: Work is a blessing from God and not a curse – Part 1 (00:16:27)
God works. God created work as a blessing and not as a curse. Yet this is not the typical view of work. Question: Do you see the work you do as a blessing or a curse? Why?
Day 21: Work is a blessing from God and not a curse – Part 2 (00:13:13)
Arturo gives more examples of how this truth impacts worldview and thus the way life is lived. He ends with some advice on how to teach this and other principles. Question: One person views her work as a way to produce and serve others well. Another views her work primarily as a way to make money. Let’s even assume both are equally diligent and do quality work. What difference does it make?
Day 22: What is your concept of nature and your relationship to it? (00:09:07)
Different cultures have different concepts of nature. Why does this matter? What is the biblical view of nature and mankind’s relationship to it? Question 1: In much of the world people have a superstitious way of seeing the material world and life around them? Do you know someone who is superstitious in this way? How does it impact their life? Question 2: For Arturo, having dominion over nature meant being willing to pick up the trash at a public event at his children’s school. How abo...
Day 23: Understanding God’s design for our lives in Genesis (00:23:02)
If you read Genesis and the first books of Moses, you are going to find a lot of things that can guide you to God's design for life. Arturo talks about the importance of reading Genesis as it sets the foundation for God’s design for our lives and the world, all that was lost, and thus all that needs to be redeemed. Question: Arturo says that when you look for the glory of God in creation, you are going to learn much more about God. Is that your experience as well? How do you look for th...
Day 24: You don't worship what you don't admire (00:07:03)
You don't worship what you don't admire. God made creation for us to enjoy and so that we could know and admire him. When we see this connection between God and his creation we cannot help but admire and celebrate him. Question: Arturo says, “You don't worship what you don't admire.” How can being alert to the beauty of nature cause you to worship God?
Day 25: Different views on giving money to God (00:05:29)
Why do you give money to God? Is it so God will bless you? If so, Arturo says that to give money to God in order to receive favors is a paganistic form of adoration that is forbidden in the Bible. Question: The Bible says much about helping widows and orphans, the poor, and the vulnerable. What percentage of the money that you give to God goes to help widows, orphans, the poor, and vulnerable? Should you do more?
