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About
Worldview Matters® and Dr. Christian
Overman
After teaching in both public and private schools, and serving as Principal of a Christian school for
fourteen years, Christian Overman, with
his wife, Kathy, founded Worldview Matters®
in the year 2000, compelled by a vision to help people recover from secularized
thought.
Dr. Overman is the author of Assumptions
That Affect Our Lives, God's Pleasure At Work,
The Difference One Life Can Make, and co-author of
Making
the Connections: How to Put Biblical Worldview Integration
Into Practice.
Christian holds a a Doctor of Ministry degree from
Bakke Graduate University, where he studied under
Dr. Ray Bakke, and a Master of Education degree from
Seattle Pacific University, where he studied philosophy
of Christian education under Dr. Albert E. Greene,
Jr. He is also a commissioned Centurion, studying under Charles Colson.
Christian and Kathy Overman have been married since
1970. They have four adult children, and ten grandchildren.
They reside in Bellevue, Washington.
Invitations to speak have taken Dr. Overman across the USA, as well as to Europe, Central America,
Africa and Asia. His goal is
to communicate in everyday language so that followers
of Christ can more effectively
live out their faith in daily life.
Statement of Faith
We subscribe to the following beliefs:
1. We believe in one eternal God, manifest in three
distinct Persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. (John
1:1-3, 18; 15:26; 17:11, 21)
2. We believe all things were created and continue to
be sustained by God. (Gen. 1; John 1:1-3; Col. 1:16-17;
Heb. 1:3)
3. We believe the Bible, in its entirety, to be the
inspired Word of God and the only infallible rule of
faith and conduct. (II Tim. 3:15-17; Heb. 4:12;
II Pet. 1:20-21)
4. We believe the coequal, coexistent and coeternal
Son of God, our Lord Jesus Christ, was conceived of
the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary, was crucified,
dead, buried, resurrected; that He ascended into Heaven
and is now seated at the right hand of God, the Father,
and is true God and true man. He is the only mediator
between God and man, and He accomplished man's redemption
through His sacrificial death on the cross. (Luke
1:30-35; I Cor. 15:3-5; Acts 1:9-11; John 3:16; I Pet.
1:3-5,8,9; Rom. 5:8-10)
5. We believe the Holy Spirit, the third Person of the
Trinity, possesses all the divine attributes of the
Father and Son. He baptizes all believers into Christ's
body, the church, at the moment of conversion. The Holy
Spirit indwells, instructs and empowers all believers,
giving various gifts for the purpose of equipping the
saints and building up the body of Christ. (Luke
12:12; Acts 2:33, 38-39; I Cor. 12:4-31; Col. 1:18;
Eph. 2:19-22; 4:11-12; Gal. 5:18-25)
6. We believe in the resurrection of the dead, the eternal
joy of those who know and trust Christ, and the eternal
separation from Him of those who don’t. We believe that
the gift of eternal life is bestowed on every repentant
person who trusts in the finished work of Christ on
the cross for the forgiveness of sins. (John 3:14-18;
I Cor. 15:20-22; II Cor. 5:10, 14,15; I Thess. 4:13-15)
7. We believe in the visible, bodily second-coming of
our Lord Jesus Christ. (Acts 1:9-11; I Thess. 4:13-17)
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