By N.T. Wright | YouTube.com
Published in January of 2020 and June of 2010
SUMMARY: In two short videos totaling just under eight minutes Biblical scholar N.T. Wright dives deeper into the doctrine of the image of God. Wright says Genesis 1 is a calling to humans to look after the world and make it a place where heaven and earth come together. Since humans are created in the image of God we have a unique role in God’s plan. Heaven and earth are temples and we are the priests that are called to worship God through our God-given vocation of filling the earth with people and taking care of the earth.
KEY QUOTES: “Humans are not just a little bit that is broken off when God is finished doing something else. Humans are not an accident, a sort of cosmic freak that just happened like this. One of the main things that Genesis 1 is teaching us is that humans have a very special, unique place within the entire design and narration of creation.”
“It isn’t that the image is a mirror in which God is reflected back to God. The image is an angled mirror through which the worship of creation is reflected up to God and the stewardship and love and purposes of God are reflected out into the world.”
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Pastor David Ellis of Astoria Community Church (Astoria, NY) asks what does it mean to be made in the image of God? Is it our intelligence? Is it how we look? Is it our creativity? Ellis postulates that it is none of those as there are some people that are less intelligent and less creative…
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ARTICLE: Calling for a Modern-Day Reformation
In a powerful essay author Jemar Tisby asks why many American Christians are not welcoming to the increasing diversity of the country when Revelation 7:9 talks about a diverse multitude standing before the throne of the Lord. As a result, Tisby calls for a modern-day reformation rooted in the image of God. Tisby goes one…
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Speaker Mike Cosper details three ways we bear God’s images in the world – our capacity for relationships, our capacity for culture-making, and our capacity for wielding power. Each of these characteristics of God are detailed in the Bible, but what holds us back from realizing our full potential of being made in the image…
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