I speak as a lay Christian with scientific
interests in support of the sword of state.Most of my life work, except for a brief period of full-time Christian
ministry, has been with the United States Air Force as a scientific
services officer and with the United States Army as a civilian
scientist.I became a Christian
while attending the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as an
undergraduate.Living in an
environment openly hostile to the Christian faith, I realized very quickly
the importance of being able to deal with intelligent unbelief.
Later, while in full-time Christian ministry in
the 70s during the height of the hippie-movement and the anti Vietnam-war
hysteria, I was led to devise the basic elements of the framework approach
you will hear about in these talks. When I attempted to minister the Word
of God with a strong exegetical basis, I immediately became aware of a vast
canyon separating the conventional Bible church thinking and the
unbelieving cultural rebels I was attempting to reach.Back in those days of the 70s, you heard
very little talk about “worldviews”, but we certainly perceived that this
canyon extended for a considerable distance between the conventional Bible
approaches and what was needed to communicate to virtual pagans.
I became reasonably successful in working around
this barrier of communication without compromising biblical doctrine.Over the years many of those cultural
rebels have gone on in spiritual maturity and have very significant
ministries of their own.It has been
heartening to me that the framework of communication of the Word of God that
I was led to create has helped impact lives.It has served me well as I later trained
at the graduate level in my field of scientific specialization.
