at all. When conflicts arise, as they always do, understanding worldviews helps us identify the deepest source of the conflict and to explain what difference it makes in any situation to follow Jesus Christ. Admittedly, worldview thinking also has its critics. The German theologian Karl Barth warned that when Christians articulate a Weltanschauung, inevitably they reduce the Christian faith to the definite “world-picture” of their own time and place, which is always inadequate.12 Furthermore, there