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Kuyper's Worldview Summary

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A summary of what Kuyper’s worldview would be seeing the world through God’s loving eyes. To quote the book, “And this seeing is guided by love, and abiding desire to care about what God cares about- to rejoice in what makes God’s heart glad and to grieve about what saddens him.” I would agree with that statement. We must be transformed by grace and the love of Jesus to see the world in a new perspective. As Christians, we should be attempting to understand what hurts our Father and what delights him greatly. Striving to understand who God is and how he wants us to live is important to our worldviews. My worldview is virtually identical, and I agree with Kuyper’s worldview. Once we have tasted and seen God’s goodness, we should perceive

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