The Truth Project - Wrap Up

The Truth Project is designed for small group study, with each of its 12 lessons (plus an optional introductory session) building on the previous to create a cohesive exploration of a biblical worldview. The curriculum covers foundational topics like truth, philosophy, and theology before delving into social spheres such as family, state, labor, and community. Dr. Del Tackett, a former Air Force officer and worldview expert, presents each session with clarity, weaving biblical teaching, historical examples, and cultural analysis to equip Christians to live transformed lives. The goal is not just intellectual understanding but practical application—empowering believers to engage their world with confidence in God’s truth.

The course’s structure is deliberate, moving from core concepts to their application in everyday life. Each lesson addresses a specific aspect of a biblical worldview, revealing how God’s truth contrasts with cultural lies in the ongoing cosmic battle. By asking, “Do you really believe that what you believe is really real?” The Truth Project challenges participants to examine their beliefs and live them out consistently. The lessons collectively aim to equip Christians to navigate a world shaped by competing ideologies, fostering a faith that impacts personal decisions and societal engagement. Below, we explore each lesson’s key themes and how they contribute to the overarching mission of aligning believers with God’s reality.

The journey begins with defining truth as “conformity to fact or reality” (per the 1828 Webster’s Dictionary). This lesson contrasts biblical truth—rooted in God’s unchanging reality—with cultural relativism, which leads to social chaos. Tackett introduces the “worldview compass” (God, man, social order) and emphasizes the cosmic battle between truth and lies, urging participants to examine their beliefs’ alignment with reality.

This lesson explores philosophy as the quest for ultimate reality and ethics as moral standards. It critiques modern materialistic philosophies that confine reality to a “cosmic cube” excluding God, resulting in subjective ethics. Christians are called to renew their minds biblically, resisting worldly assumptions that lack a universal moral foundation.

Contrasting the biblical view of humanity—created in God’s image as body and spirit—with materialistic views of humans as random products of evolution, this lesson addresses the origin of evil. It explains evil as a result of the Fall, not inherent goodness as culture claims, and challenges secular views of self-fulfillment against biblical purpose and accountability.

Knowing God is central to human identity, this lesson argues. It defends the Bible’s reliability against historical critics like Voltaire, emphasizing that true knowledge of God comes through His Word and personal relationship. Encountering God reveals sin and offers redemptive transformation, shaping believers’ identities.

This lesson examines science as a tool to discover truth in creation, critiquing its distortion into godless philosophies like Darwinian evolution. Such ideologies, lacking empirical support, promote human autonomy and have led to historical atrocities like the Holocaust. The lesson underscores that creation reveals God’s attributes through general and special revelation.

History is presented as God’s sovereign narrative, with all events under His control (Isaiah 46:9-11). The lesson warns against revisionism and postmodernism, which deny metanarratives to promote human autonomy. Forgetting God’s role in history fuels cultural resistance to divine authority, urging believers to remember His acts.

This lesson reveals God’s triune nature reflected in social systems like family, church, and state, which embody unity in diversity. It discusses cultural attacks on these spheres, particularly family structures, and highlights how dysfunction arises from rejecting God’s design or blurring boundaries.

Exploring the mystical union between God and believers, this lesson emphasizes the intimate relationship offered through Christ, illustrated by biblical metaphors like the vine and branches. Idolatry disrupts this bond, akin to marital unfaithfulness, and believers are called to seek fulfillment in God alone.

The state, as God’s delegate for justice, must operate under divine authority. This lesson critiques its overreach into tyranny when detached from God’s law, citing examples like Stalin and Hitler. Christians are urged to resist state idolatry and uphold biblical principles of justice.

This lesson views America’s founding as rooted in biblical principles, influenced by Christian virtues for self-governance. It notes the nation’s drift due to secularism and evolutionary thought, urging prayer and repentance to reclaim these roots without idolizing the nation.

Labor is celebrated as a joyful reflection of God’s creativity, not a curse. Structured in triune relationships, work builds culture, creates wealth, and fosters compassion. The lesson emphasizes aligning arts and media with God’s truth and beauty, highlighting Christian influence in these areas.

The final lesson stresses God’s heart for the needy, calling believers to active, humble community involvement. Using their gifts to love neighbors, Christians counter neglect and survival-of-the-fittest mentalities, following Christ’s example of identifying with the weak.