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Who Is It For?
Individuals, Families, Churches, Christian Schools, and Homeschool Organizations
These materials are designed for ages 8-88. They are very effective when implemented in group studies among families in a daily devotion setting; among teens in a Middle and High-school format; or among adults in a home-group structure.
The Worldview Series
Thinking Like a Christian Video Series consists of roughly 13 hours of biblical worldview instruction divided into 12 key subjects of life (approx. 1-hour each, divided into 10-15-minute segments daily). This series can be used as a video tool only, accompanied by Study Guides containing questions designed to engage all who watch. The aim is to get all participants talking about the ideas of God in comparison to the opposing ideas of the world—to discern the good from the evil. Answer keys are provided.
You Are What You Think Textbook Series contains every word spoken in the video series with 15% additional material added. The textbooks can be implemented with or without the videos, and contain challenging and engaging study questions as well. Answer keys are available for download on our website.
Subjects Covered
What is a Worldview and Why Does It Matter? The Christian View of: History, Theology, Philosophy, Economics, Science, Psychology, Ethics, Sociology, Law, Politics, Education.
See our overview of the series, for a closer look into each section of the course, including some sample video from the courses themselves.
Overview of GTI Ministries
Our biblical worldview resources are the end product of 35 years serving in leadership in four denominations as God gave our family a bird’s eye view of the drowning church in America. Our first-hand experience watching children, families, churches, and the nation fall away from God has been heartbreaking; and these resources are God's answer to our prayers for a means of equipping the church to not just survive—but thrive—amidst the battle of ideas attacking from all directions.
We have seen tremendous success from the method we use to quickly cement a biblical worldview into entire families who previously had little or no grounding. We call our method “indoctrinate and inoculate”, meaning: Indoctrinate the learners with the fundamental doctrines (principles, precepts, truths) of the Bible in each of 12 areas of life and inoculate them by comparing and contrasting the biblical worldview against the opposing worldviews pummeling our culture today. In this manner, the family wrestles with the ideas currently bringing the church down, so that they will not be deceived and taken captive by those bad ideas when they leave the sanctuary of the home. We battle ideas; thus, this method prepares the students to critically think through all ideas using the Bible as their key source of knowledge and wisdom.Our Purpose
Christian Education
Greater Than I Ministries (GTI Ministries) is a non-profit agency providing products and materials such as Christian educational videos and textbooks and resource books. These products are specifically aimed at the Christian church community at large for the purpose of “equipping the saints for the work of the ministry” (Eph. 4:11-16). We believe it is imperative that the church and her families be prepared to combat and “demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God” (II Cor. 10:5). If we do not educate ourselves and engage in this battle of ideas, we are only surrendering ourselves to the enemy; as Hosea 4:6 states, “My people perish from lack of knowledge.” The goal of GTI Ministries is therefore to encourage and promote intelligent, thoughtful application of Scripture to every vocation or station in life (what we call biblical worldview teaching), and thereby to reestablish a sense of confidence, pride, and hope into the Christian church that is sorely absent today in America.
How?
The means of achieving our goals is through the family structure. America’s churches are falling because the family structure has been broken down. The core values and morals of Christianity have ceased to be passed from one generation to the next because the church and its families long ago surrendered the education of our children over to the state-controlled public school system. We firmly believe that the parents (and future parents) within the church can – and must – reclaim the faith and our families by once again taking personal responsibility to educate ourselves and our children. We must not expect the local church or school or popular media to perform this task any longer – especially when the current education system and the media has become so corrupted – and there are so many excellent Christian tools at our disposal today to assist us in doing it right …according to God.