Why Your Worldview Is Quietly Running Your Life (And You Don’t Even Know It)
Most of us have never stopped to ask: How do I actually see the world? Not what we believe on paper — but the filter we’re running every decision, every relationship, and every moment of doubt through. According to Jamie Winship, a mentor whose teaching has been reshaping the way Daron Earlewine coaches people inside Rogue Collective, there are only two worldviews operating in our world: separation or connection. In this episode, Daron breaks down the first one — the separation worldview — and the four forces quietly driving it: scarcity, certainty, perfection, and self-focus. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it.
Scarcity and certainty: the two lies you’ve been living by
Scarcity says there isn’t enough — not enough love, opportunity, money, or grace. When that’s your starting point, everything becomes a competition. You self-promote. You self-protect. You read the news and feel the threat. You even project it onto God — His grace is limited. His time for me is running out. But Scripture pushes back hard. Psalm 23 says you shall not want. Matthew 6 says God knows what you need. John 10:10 promises life to the full. Certainty stacks on top of scarcity. If there isn’t enough, you can’t afford to be wrong. So you dig in. You fight anyone with a different view. You stop trusting and start controlling. Daron points out that control isn’t listed anywhere in the fruit of the Spirit — but certainty kills curiosity, and curiosity is what creates connection.
Perfection and self-focus: where dreams go to die
Perfection is kryptonite for your soul. It sounds like: I’d love to start that business, try for that relationship, go after that dream — but I’m not ready. I’m not enough. It keeps you frozen while life moves on. And if you require perfection from yourself, you’ll require it from everyone around you too — which means people will always disappoint you, and separation becomes inevitable. That isolation lands you at the final stop: self-focus. Every prayer becomes about you. Every spiritual practice becomes performance. And as Daron says, a lot of what passes for devotional life can quietly become spiritual narcissism — doing it to manage God, not meet Him. The good news? You don’t have to stay here. The next episode tackles the connection worldview — what it looks like to actually live from abundance, mystery, fallibility, and others-focus.
Episode Summary:
What if the thing wrecking your faith, your relationships, and your calling isn’t a behavior problem, it’s a worldview problem? In this episode, Daron unpacks the separation worldview and its four deadly parts: scarcity, certainty, perfection, and self-focus. Once you see it, you cannot unsee it.
This is Part 1 of a two-part series on worldview, curated from the teaching of Jamie Winship. Part 2 covers the connection worldview, abundance, mystery, fallibility, and others-focused and how shifting to it can unlock the life you were designed for.
Key Takeaways:
- The only two worldviews that actually operate in our world
- How scarcity shapes what you believe about God, yourself, and others
- The perfection trap that keeps you from starting, risking, and becoming
- Why most of our spiritual growth might actually be spiritual narcissism
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EPISODE TRANSCRIPT
Daron: Welcome back to the Daron Earlewine Podcast. Good to have you back. Want to welcome all the new listeners — downloads and subscriptions are way up, and we just want to welcome you. I don’t know how you found us. Could’ve been through YouTube, could’ve been through Spotify, could be through a friend, could be through a social media post. Doesn’t matter how you found us — I’m glad you did. I hope that you’re encouraged by every episode. Tell a friend, tell them to subscribe, and maybe share this episode.
This could be a double episode, fellas. Got PJ Towle to my right and Darren Cooper, producer extraordinaire, to my left.
Coop: Left, center-left — based on where I am on the screen.
Daron: I feel like for people that listen, they need to know spatially where people are coming from.
PJ: Have you noticed that when you have AirPods in and you turn your head, it changes?
Daron: Yes! It’s wild. I do that sometimes just because I think it’s so cool. I’m on an airplane and people must think I’m nuts — I’m sitting there watching a movie just going like this. Look at that — talking to my left ear now.
PJ: I remember the first time I heard it listening to music and I felt like I was in the middle of the stage. I turned my head and it was a Foo Fighters record and I turned my head and thought, “Oh, Dave Grohl moved.” I was like, “Oh, this is so cool. What’s happening?”
Coop: The first time I did it I was like, “Oh no, my headphones just broke.” I totally thought the bass just went out. Like, what just happened? And then — wait, it came back. Actually a really fair point if you don’t know what’s going to happen.
PJ: I was like, “Oh no, they’re broken.” And then — “Oh wait, this is designed this way.” Thank you, Apple engineers. You’re geniuses.
Daron: Anyway, back to what we were talking about. Double episode — first half of this episode we’re going to hit the first half of this idea of worldview, and then the next episode we’ll hit the second half.
What I want to teach today I’ve curated from a distant mentor of mine who I keep talking about — Jamie Winship. Last year I got introduced to him at a half-day conference and man, I dove in. And I used to feel guilty about this — and this is interesting, maybe this is just your takeaway. My whole life I’ve been enamored by learning and reading. Probably late teens I got into the mindset of: if I’m going to lead, I gotta read.
PJ: I’ve heard you talk about how you did not love school though. I remember… Hooked on Phonics?
Daron: Worked for me. Worked for me. So anyway — what we call a throwback. Yeah, anybody that’s 40 and older is like, I remember that. This might be wrong, but this is how I remember the story — I feel like I had issues with phonics and I struggled to read when I was young, like third grade, and I feel like my parents couldn’t afford Hooked on Phonics, so I got like the generic version.
PJ: That may still be your issue. Why you can’t say the word peculiar.
Daron: I can’t say it. I can’t.
PJ: Peculiar.
Daron: Peculiar. Yeah, I can’t say it.
Coop: It’s very peculiar. It’s peculiar that you can’t say that. What would the generic version of Hooked on Phonics be called?
Daron: Like… Brushed on Phonics? Nicked by Phonics?
PJ: Nicked by Phonics. That is it. It was the knockoff version. Probably got it at Walmart.
Daron: There are a lot of words I can’t say. Jewelry either.
PJ: Jewelry? Jeweler?
Daron: Jewelry. Is that right? Jewelry.
PJ: I think what you usually say is jewelry.
Daron: Jewelry, jewelry. Okay. I used to say Toyota. You would also say Piana.
PJ: Okay, yeah. So it’s your grandpa’s fault.
Daron: I dated a girl in high school that said “Turl it.” She did. She was from the South.
PJ: That’s why you guys stopped dating though. At that point you’re like, “I’m thinking more about genetics here.”
Daron: Hooked on Phonics works for her. Anyway. I don’t know how we got there. What I love about these episodes — we have a lot more fun. I’m all serious when I’m by myself like, “Look, I’m doing a podcast. Serious guy.”
So I used to hear these voices in my head — going back to our episode about hearing the voice of God — and when I would quote someone else or find something and think, “I want people to learn this,” my head would say, “You’re a fake. You’re a hack.”
PJ: That’s the enemy. That’s the enemy.
Daron: I was doing some mentoring with Dave Gibbons a couple of years ago and we were in this kind of flow consult thing, trying to understand my essence. And Dave said, “You’re a curator.” And it was the first time that felt like a positive — like I’m not a hack, I’m more of a researcher.
And quoting the great theologian Eddie Van Halen — my brother told me that Eddie was in an interview once and talked about what it means to be an artist. He said, “Every artist is a thief.” He said the deal with creativity is that everyone is a sponge and a filter. You soak in all these influences — I love this guitarist, I love this drummer, I love this author, I love this speaker — and you absorb all of that in this learning process. Then as you create, you become a filter and it comes out through your own individual kind of innovation.
I can look back over the past 25 years and there have been some foundational people for me. I was at the Catalyst Conference in Atlanta in 2001 and Erwin McManus spoke. I would have been 22 or 23. I didn’t know much, but I had a lot of convictions, a lot of vision, a lot of ideas that I didn’t know how to put into words. And the first time I heard Erwin speak, I thought, “He’s saying everything that I think but don’t know how to say.”
There’s a handful of guys — Erwin, Alan Hirsch, Jamie Winship is another one now. These are foundational, pillar-type influences for me. And I would encourage you as a listener: look for that. Because there’s something about your calling that these people were a big part of helping instill and build in you. They’re going to be different for everybody — just pay attention. If you have somebody that you hear, whether it’s their speaking, their music, their writing, whatever it is that inspires you and draws you in — lean into that, because it’s probably something you need to begin curating.
So a year ago I heard Jamie teach this idea of worldview. And when I heard it I was like, “This is life-changing for me.” I think I’ve sprinkled it into maybe a couple of episodes, but I wanted to do two full episodes to really unpack it together. Because the more I teach it to people in Rogue Collective coaching, I’m getting comments constantly — texts, emails like, “Dude, I’m seeing this everywhere. I was completely blind to this.”
There’s a quote that says: How you see anything is how you see everything. And I think most of us, we never probably slow down enough to go, “What’s my worldview? What do I filter everything through?”
Jamie would say — and people say there are lots of worldviews — but his argument is there are only two worldviews that actually operate in our world: separation or connection.
What we’re going to do in this episode is take a look at the separation worldview and see where we see it showing up in our lives. Then in the second episode, we’re going to talk about the connection worldview — also called the kingdom worldview. When Jamie unpacked it, it was like scales were coming off my eyes. This is how we see everything.
So let’s jump in. There are four parts of the separation worldview and four parts of the connection worldview. Here’s a quick overview before we unpack them.
Separation worldview: scarcity → certainty → perfection → self-focus.
Connection worldview: abundance → mystery → fallibility → others-focus.
We’re going to unpack those eight elements and see how maybe unknowingly we’ve adopted one of these as our worldview — and what we might get to unlock if we could shift and move more toward a connected worldview.
PJ: I’m really excited to hear where this goes because instantly I start going, “Oh yeah, here’s a situation I’ve been in where I’ve gone that way,” or “Here’s a person I know that’s living this way,” or “Here’s this person that intrigues me and I see them living this way.”
Daron: Good. After we go through this, you will see it everywhere — which is super empowering. Because if you’re going to live from a separation worldview, life’s already hard. It’s going to be almost unlivable. But if there’s an option to move into more of a connected, kingdom-minded worldview — what are you going to experience? Life and life to the full.
SCARCITY
Okay, the separation worldview starts with scarcity. Scarcity says: There isn’t enough. Not enough of what? Anything. Water, food, opportunity, love, joy, relationships — everything. There’s just not enough. We start from a place where everything is a scarce resource.
And when we start here, it begins to infect everything we do. It’s driving our beliefs about God. It’s driving our beliefs about ourselves. And it’s driving our beliefs about others.
Start with God. Well, if the world is scarce, then God’s love is scarce. Grace is scarce. His time for me is scarce.
About yourself: I’m not smart enough. I’m not strong enough. I’m not ________ enough.
About others: They don’t care enough. They’re not nice enough. They’ve taken my portion. There’s not enough because of them.
Coop: And build on that — if there’s not enough, what does your posture toward other people have to be?
Daron: Oh yeah.
Coop: Always making sure you position yourself to get yours. I need to get mine and make sure they’re out of the way so I can have what I deserve, what I need, what I want.
Daron: Exactly. I have to think of me first. I need to self-promote. I need to self-protect at all times. And you never even think to yourself, “I am really being self-focused and I’m so anxious and so worried.” You never connect the dots. It may take something like this for you to go, “Oh my gosh — it’s because I think everything is scarce. I don’t believe there’s enough of anything.”
PJ: I know that I’ve seen it in my own life, whether it’s in business or finances. It can so easily creep in — “There won’t be another client, there won’t be another paycheck” — and you can start to really just freak out. And fear is that underlining thing. There’s massive fear just sitting under all of it.
Daron: Massive. And now you start to focus on yourself more than anybody else. Go watch the news this week — actually, don’t watch the news. But if you did — watch any ad, any piece of sales content. You’re going to see it everywhere. “If you don’t buy this right now, it’s over for you.” Why? Because there’s not enough time. You’ve already wasted too much. You don’t have enough money. And you know who the problem is? The people that have the money. They’ve taken way more than their share because there’s not enough for all of us. So you know what you need to do to those people? Separate from them.
Everything in the separation worldview drives you to separate.
“God doesn’t have enough love for me. God doesn’t have enough grace for me.” What do I do? I separate. I’m out. And what do I think God’s doing? He’s wanting to separate from me, probably. Because I’m not praying enough. I’m not doing enough for the poor. I’m not ________ enough.
But that’s completely unbiblical. Psalm 23 — The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He’s sufficient. Matthew 6 — Jesus says, “Don’t worry, because your heavenly Father knows what you need.” He owns the cattle on a thousand hills. He has it all. John 10:10 — I came to give you life, and life to the full. 2 Corinthians 9:8 — God is able to bless you abundantly so that in all things, at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.
Scarcity contradicts the nature of God as provider and undermines our trust in Him. It makes us separate from Him, separate from others. It’s not good.
Coop: What great verses to just write out and keep in front of you. If you find yourself going, “That’s my thing, that’s the way I think” — put those verses in front of you.
Daron: It goes back to our past episode about hearing the voice of God — what I call “truthing out.” What’s true? That’s true. This is how I feel. But is your feeling true? No, actually it’s not. It’s not based on truth. God, change my worldview.
CERTAINTY
Scarcity runs into the next one — certainty. Certainty says: I must control outcomes, predict the future, and eliminate risk. I have to know. I have to be certain.
Why? Because there’s not enough. And if there’s not enough, I can’t afford to be wrong.
PJ: I’m nerding out over here because I’m already starting to see the motivations behind it. Here’s why someone’s worldview looks this way. Here’s what happened to somebody when they were a kid that caused them to see the world like this.
Daron: Good. And the righteous will live by faith — which is confidence in things that we hope for, assurance in things we can’t see. This whole deal with God is being like, “I don’t actually know.” Think about anything you think you really know about God — anything you’re really certain about. Why do we have thousands of denominations?
I have this picture: when we get to heaven, God’s going to go, “Okay, all you Baptists over here, all you Methodists over here, all you Church of God and Wesleyan folks stand next to each other — but don’t intermingle too much. Some Nazarenes over here.” And then He’s going to say, “Listen — you had this right, but you were really wrong about this, this, and this. And you had this right, and the snake thing was weird, but…”
Why can’t we just get along? Because we’re certain.
When certainty is your worldview — what do you do to other people who are equally certain about what they believe?
Coop: Fight with them. Push them off. Separate.
Daron: Yep. “Keep me away from those people. Why? Because they’re wrong. How do you know? Because I’m certain.” And why do you have to be certain?
PJ: Because if you don’t know, you feel out of control. You can’t feel out of control. You’ve got to be in control, you’ve got to know, you’ve got to be right. And if someone has an opposing viewpoint, that means they’re saying you’re wrong. So you have to separate from them.
Daron: And then you actually start to question yourself so much — you don’t even trust your own discernment. “What if I’m wrong?” So you can’t make decisions. It’s a complete tailspin.
Why are you so anxious? Because I have to be right. Who said that? Who told you that you had to be right? What if you just walked in faith? As best I know, this is what I’m thinking right now — but I’m not sure. And I think when we can let go of certainty, we can reintroduce compassionate curiosity.
“As best I know, this is what I’m thinking — but I’m pretty sure I don’t know everything. Tell me what you’ve discovered.” And in that compassionate curiosity — what did I just do? I created connection.
“Hey God, I’m really uncertain about what you want me to do here. This is the best I can know, and it seems like it’s in line with the fruit of the Spirit. But I could be wrong. I want to trust the Lord and lean not on my own understanding — because in all my ways, you said you’d make them straight.” So on faith, I’m going to move in the direction I believe, but I’m going to let go of my need to be certain.
Coop: That’s an unlock right there.
Daron: It’s everywhere. What is CNN and Fox News? Separation and certainty. Just giving you all day, every day why you’re right — and why they are absolutely wrong. They’re the enemy. We’ve got to separate from them, dehumanize them, talk down to them. Why? Because they’re wrong. How do you know they’re wrong? Because I have to be certain. Ridiculous. And it doesn’t help anyone.
Certainty replaces trust with control. And control is never presented in the Bible as a virtue of faith.
Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness… control? Not on the list.
Proverbs 3:5-6 — Trust in the Lord and lean not on your own understanding. James 4:13-15 — You do not even know what will happen tomorrow. Hebrews 11 — Faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. 2 Corinthians 5:7 — We live by faith, not by sight.
PERFECTION
Not enough. Must be certain. Which drives us to the next one — perfection. Perfection says: I must perform, achieve, or be flawless to be accepted or to have worth.
Talk to people all the time about something they feel like God might be inviting them into. A few years ago, my word of the year was “worthy.” And it took me a full year to even begin to level up in that area — and I’m still clawing out of that pit.
Here’s how perfection works as your worldview kryptonite: “Man, I’d really like to start this business. I really want to start this relationship. I really want to try…” But then — “I’m not worthy of that. Why? Because I’m not perfect. I made this mistake. I did this thing. I’m imperfect. Therefore I’m unworthy for whatever it is I’m excited about.” It’s kryptonite for our souls.
PJ: I was listening to a business coach earlier, and it’s kind of a parallel to what you’re talking about — he said that out of all the people he’s coached over the years, the ones who win are the ones who move the fastest. And usually the ones who aren’t moving quickly are the ones trying to make everything perfect before they push go. You can see it — we slow down because we want it to be perfect, when maybe God is inviting us into something deeper and we just need to act. We need to move. We need to step into it and let go of the perfection piece. When that happens, you can move further faster.
Daron: And the artist in us — we want our work to say something. We want it to be meaningful. We want it to be right. But look at product releases. Apple just pushed an update to their operating system because there were bugs from the one they pushed a month before. It’s a constant evolution and growth. If major corporations don’t expect their products to be perfect, why do we expect everything we do — why do we expect ourselves — to be perfect?
Well, our worldview says: God’s perfect. That is correct. And there is a scripture that says, “Be perfect as your Heavenly Father is perfect.” So the standard is perfection. That’s the bar.
Except — take that out of context and it’s really dangerous. Look at all the people in the Bible from the very first two all the way through. What are they? Unbelievably imperfect.
I was standing in the kitchen the other night and I looked at my wife and said, “Angie, let me explain the whole Bible to you.” She goes, “Please share.” I said, “God made us and He loves us. We screwed up. He still loves us. So we should come back.” She was like, “That’s actually really simple.” And I said, “It is — but that’s the story over and over and over again. And we keep getting in the way.”
I’m reading through Jeremiah right now. Israel screwed up. Judah screwed up. Jeremiah screwed up. But God is still there, inviting them back.
Unless I’m reading the Bible through a separation worldview. Then it reads: God is perfect. You’re not. Separate. And you can actually find moments in scripture that seem to support that — except does He ever actually leave? He always comes back, doesn’t He? He says, “I’ll never leave you or forsake you. Even when you are unfaithful, I will be faithful.”
Look at Adam and Eve. What happens when they sin? He goes and finds them. He wasn’t separated. “Hey guys, where are you?” And when they say, “We were naked and ashamed, so we hid” — God says, “Who told you that? I didn’t say you were shameful. I didn’t tell you to be afraid of me. I didn’t tell you to separate. I’m right here.”
And even in removing them from the garden, it wasn’t punishment rooted in rejection — it was mercy. Because if they had access to the tree of life in their current state of separation, of trusting their own knowledge of good and evil, they would’ve been stuck in that forever. And God had a plan to redeem them. Because their imperfection was not a problem for Him.
But if I’m living from the perfection lens: I have to be perfect. I never am. I’m unworthy. I won’t take the risk. I won’t ask her out. I won’t try for the job. I won’t go for the promotion. I won’t start the new business. Because I am a failure. I’m not perfect. So I separate from myself — from my ambitions, my dreams, my calling.
And others? Just give it about five minutes and somebody will disappoint me. You’re imperfect. You let me down. Guess what I have to do? Separate. “I really struggle to make friends.” Why? “Because they always let me down. They never come through for me.” Also, your standard for friendship is perfection. “Well, of course they have to be perfect — because I have to be perfect, because God wants us to be perfect. And all these people do is fail me. So I’ll just take care of myself.”
Which takes you to the last point of the separation worldview: self-focus.
Scriptures on perfection: Ephesians 2:8-9 — By grace you have been saved, not by works. 2 Corinthians 12:9 — My grace is sufficient for you; my power is made perfect in weakness. Romans 3:23-24 — All have sinned and are justified freely by His grace. Philippians 1:6 — He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion.
SELF-FOCUS
Self-focus, self-promotion, self-protection — which is the antithesis of love.
There’s our world.
Coop: Mic drop.
Daron: When Jamie taught it, I was just sitting there, eyes wide, going, “Holy crap. You want to understand our world? That’s it. That’s it.” Every conflict. Why are we at war? “We need your oil and your money.” Why? “Because there’s not enough. These are fossil fuels. There’s not enough.” And we get real certain about our strategies, make sure we perform perfectly, make sure everyone knows how imperfect you are, completely focus on ourselves, and then go take what we want. Whether it’s oil, whether it’s a relationship — it’s in everything.
And I hope with this podcast, with the compassion and grace of Jesus, we just start becoming aware of where we see it popping up.
Usually the first thing to figure out — you’ll get a sense of it. When am I trying to separate? Am I distancing myself from my kids, from my parents, from my wife, from God, from myself? When I sense myself separating, I need to ask: Where did this come from? Lord, what do you want me to know about why I’m separating?
“Because you screwed up and you couldn’t handle the shame of your imperfection. So you went and hid. You separated from people, and you separated from me. Then why did I start feeling prideful? Because you fell back on your religion. You fell back on what you were certain of — your religious worldview. So you went from separation, and then found some peace in your religious certainty, which — once again — still isn’t me.”
And if you notice, the majority of everything you’re doing at that point is in an effort to protect, promote, and stay focused on yourself.
I’ve been convicted — and I think I’ve said this in some sermons — but I believe the majority of our devotional time, our spiritual growth practices… a lot of it can be pretty close to spiritual narcissism.
PJ: That’s kind of a tough pill to swallow.
Daron: Why do you pray? So I can know what I need to do. So I can make sure I’m doing it right, doing it perfectly, making sure God is happy with me so He’ll give me the good things in life. So I pray for myself. I think about myself. I read the Bible for myself. I serve myself. I promote myself. I protect myself. Why? Because there’s not enough. I have to be certain, be perfect, stay self-focused — because I’m afraid of separation.
And how’s that working out for you?
It sucks. Really bad. And Jesus is like, “Yeah. I know. That’s why I said I give you life and life to the full. Love, joy, peace, patience — these things are supposed to flow out of you like a spring of living water. But your worldview is separation, and you can’t even see it.”
PJ: It’s funny because right now it’s mid-January and the start of the year — you’re always like, “Okay, I’m going to get back on the journaling and scripture reading and praying.” Mixed with all the other New Year’s resolutions. But the last few days I’ve just been like, “I have not done it the way I set out to.” And I just felt beat up about the whole thing.
Seeing this as you’re breaking it down — I realize it was very much like, “I wasn’t perfect at it. So what’s the point? Or I just need to try harder. There’s probably some way to structure my mornings so it’s perfect every time.” And I just felt God going, “What are you so uptight about? Bro, just calm down. Come in, read some scriptures. Let’s just hang out.” He’s saying: just allow the scriptures to be the place where I’m speaking to you. And I’ve totally made this a perfect thing — not a relationship thing.
Daron: And coming back to the Enneagram piece, PJ — let’s layer in our understanding of why we do what we do. When I’m in my field of separation, that’s when I go to my coping mechanisms of my Enneagram type. As a Nine — when you’re withdrawing from your world, trying to be unaffected in order to maintain peace — that’s a coping mechanism. For me as a Seven — when scarcity, certainty, and perfection feel unattainable, I try to escape reality. I go to excess. More is better. I can’t deal with negative emotions. So I fantasize about some fun trip I’m going to take, or what’s the next big opportunity.
If I find myself spiraling into escapism or fantasy thinking, that’s a signal — timeout, what’s happening here? I’m moving back toward my coping mechanisms. And every Enneagram type, one through nine, has them. This is what starts to put the pieces together: this motivation is driving these coping mechanisms.
And what happens if we treat the symptom and not the cause? Well, I gotta become more self-disciplined. I gotta white-knuckle my way to behavior change. And you might get a good six weeks out of that. But then you’re going to fail again — because you’re not perfect, because you really weren’t sure what you were doing in the first place. And the whole cycle leads back once again to separation.
Symptom not cause. I’m going after the symptom instead of going back to the root — the worldview that’s been driving all of it.
Okay, so in the next episode, we’ll talk about treating the cause. Let’s fix the disease. And when you start living from a connected worldview — God is for me, not against me. God is near me, not far away. God is always connected to me — that shapes your identity. I am a dearly loved child of God who is never alone, never rejected, always provided for. And what I’ve noticed is: the more I’ve started to live from that worldview, my behaviors have changed — and I didn’t even try to change them. Because they were driven by worldview all along.
Let me give you a couple of scriptures to close out. On perfection: Ephesians 2:8-9 — By grace you have been saved, not by works. 2 Corinthians 12:9 — My grace is sufficient for you; my power is made perfect in weakness. Romans 3:23-24 — All have sinned and are justified freely by His grace. Philippians 1:6 — He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion.
On self-focus: Matthew 16:24-25 — Whoever wants to save their life will lose it. Self-preservation leads to loss. Philippians 2:3-5 — Do nothing out of selfish ambition; value others above yourselves. Galatians 2:20 — I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. John 13:34-35 — Love one another; by this everyone will know that you are my disciples.
That’s the separation worldview. Next episode, we’ll hit the connection worldview. And I hope that this little foray into the worldview idea will start to help you reshape how you see anything — because it’s how you see everything. Excited for the next conversation.
I’d love to hear from you. Hit me up at DaronEarlewine.com. If you want to schedule a call, talk through some of this stuff, or if you’ve been listening to the podcast and thinking, “I need to discover my purpose, I need to know my identity” — go to DaronEarlewine.com and schedule a discovery call. I would love to chat with you and see if getting into one of our Rogue Collective hives might be the right next step.
Until we talk again, remember this: God’s for you, not against you. Near you, not far away. And He’s created you on purpose and for a purpose.