Think of it as a bootcamp for the brain. This summer, Sovereign Grace Ministries will be hosting The Clash: a week-long worldview camp designed to help young minds to engage the world with a thoroughly biblical perspective. In other words:

If you’re not painfully aware of how bizarre and offensive Christianity is to the secular mindset, then you probably don’t get out of the house enough. It’s impossible (not to mention disobedient) to retreat permanently from settings where your faith in Christ will be radically challenged. You will soon—or you may already—go to a university, a workplace, or a coffee shop where Scripture’s claims elicit confusion, disbelief, or scorn.

Do you know how to love your neighbors by commending Christ to them in an intelligent, winsome, and compelling way? This is what The Clash worldview camp is about.

But it’s about more than that, too. It’s about having a Christ-centered worldview broad and deep and mature enough to encompass the way you think about work, politics, astronomy, and rock ’n roll. It’s about celebrating and exploring the goodness of creation, giving thanks and glory to God for these amazing gifts. Christians are the true heirs of the universe. They should be the deepest thinkers, the most curious explorers, and the shrewdest statesmen. The Triune God doesn’t become irrelevant when you walk out of church or finish your quiet time. In him we live and move and have our being, in our work, play, and study.

I want to encourage our seniors to consider this. This could be a once in a lifetime opportunity to learn from some world-class scholars, including our own Jeff Purswell. Here are the details:

When: August 5-11, 2007

Where: Messiah College, Grantham, PA

Who: Anyone age 17-20 who’s part of a Sovereign Grace church

Why: To prepare you to bring biblically informed and articulate influence to any sphere of work or life

What to expect: Six hours a day of instruction and discussion focused on…

• Theological foundations of the Christian worldview
• Apologetics
• Interpreting culture from a Christian perspective
• Theology of vocation and education
• Biblical manhood and womanhood
• Centrality of the local church