We want it to be natural for our kids to see things as God sees them, speak as God speaks, and think God’s thoughts after him. This can only happen when parents and churches partner together to provide our kids with a consistently biblical worldview.

One evening, as my wife and I were putting our kids to bed, our three-year-old daughter, Opal, was making silly faces in the mirror. After reviewing her exaggerated expressions, she paused and asked, in a serious tone, “Why did Jesus make my eyes weird?”

Now, you have to understand, Opal has ginormous eyes. We call them her “Disney princess eyes” and have always told her they are beautiful.

On this particular night, however, she saw their uniqueness as strange and asked why Jesus made them “weird.”

I mention this exchange to highlight some key assumptions in Opal’s question that could have easily been overlooked.

Opal could have asked, “Why are my eyes weird?” or “Why was I born with weird eyes?” Instead, she asked, “Why did Jesus make my eyes weird?” This simple question was packed with theological significance. She saw her big eyes, not as a random feature given to her by chance or genetics, but as the purposeful design of a creator. She also assumed that the creator wasn’t a distant, unnamed deity, but the second person of the triune God, Jesus Christ.

These assumptions in her question reveal that Opal is a theologian, operating out of doctrines rooted in the Christian worldview.

Theology Shapes a Child’s Worldview

We all have assumptions and deep-rooted beliefs that shape our understanding of the world and how we operate in it. These beliefs (or presuppositions) that color how we see and live in the world are known as a person’s worldview.

Everyone at every age—from preschool to adulthood has a worldview. The question is not whether a person has a worldview, but whether that worldview is consistently biblical or Christian.

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