By David Ellis | Listen | 28m
Published in June of 2017
SUMMARY: 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 as others, but are still fully made in the image of God. Ellis, instead, says that our capacity to have a relationship with God is what sets us apart and that God created us for three things – dignity, equality, and responsibility.
KEY QUOTES: “Being created in God’s image is for everyone. It is for high born, low born. Native born, foregin born. The unborn. It’s for everyone. When that concept of everyone created in the image of God grabs hold of you it changes how you see the world.”
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