3. “There is no right understanding of yourself until you understand yourself in light of who God is. “

4. “Worldviews are not things you look at but things you look through.”

5. WHY DID GOD CREATE?

6. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

7. 3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. – Genesis 1:1-5

8. 26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

9. 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. -Genesis 1:26-27

10. Then the L ORD God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature. – Genesis 2:7

11. Then the L ORD God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature. – Genesis 2:7 And the rib that the L ORD God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. – Genesis 2:22

12. Image of God = “Imago Dei”

13. "There are no ordinary people. You have never met a mere mortal.” – C.S. Lewis (The Weight of Glory)

14. WHY DID GOD CREATE HUMANS?

15. “For His glory” ( Isaiah 43:7; Ephesians 1:11-12)

16. How lovely is your dwelling place, O L ORD of hosts! 2 My soul longs, yes, faints for the courts of the L ORD ; my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God. – Psalms 84:1-2

17. “The glory of God is man fully alive.” – Saint Irenaeus

19. Augustine of Hippo (354 AD – 430 AD)

20. Augustine of Hippo (354 AD – 430 AD) Rene Descartes (1596 – 1650)

21. Jonathan Edwards (1703 – 1758)

22. Augustine of Hippo (354 AD – 430 AD) Rene Descartes (1596 – 1650) Jonathan Edwards (1703 – 1758) Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 – 1778)

23. Augustine of Hippo (354 AD – 430 AD) Rene Descartes (1596 – 1650) Jonathan Edwards (1703 – 1758) Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 – 1778) William James (1842 – 1910)

24. Augustine of Hippo (354 AD – 430 AD) Rene Descartes (1596 – 1650) Jonathan Edwards (1703 – 1758) Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 – 1778) William James (1842 – 1910) Abraham Maslow (1908 – 1970)

25. Augustine of Hippo (354 AD – 430 AD) Rene Descartes (1596 – 1650) Jonathan Edwards (1703 – 1758) Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 – 1778) William James (1842 – 1910) Abraham Maslow (1908 – 1970) Christian Smith (1960 - Present)

26. “We become what we think of ourselves. What determines one’s being is the image one adopts.” - Abraham Heschel

27. WHAT DOES IMAGO DEI ACTUALLY MEAN?

28. 1. Unique Reflection Of God.

29. 2. Utterly Reliant Upon God.

30. 1. Unique Reflection Of God. 2. Utterly Reliant Upon God. 3. Ultimately Responsible To God.

31. Os Guinness (1941 – Present)

32. HOW CAN WE BEST IMAGE GOD?

33. Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices 10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. – Colossians 3:9-10

34. And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit. - 2 Corinthians 3:18

35. I believe it is strategically important, therefore, to say that we were created continuously outpouring— we were created in that condition, at that instant, imago Dei. We did not graduate into being in the image of God; we were, by divine fiat, already in the image of God at the instant the Spirit breathed into our dust. Hence we were created continuously outpouring. – Harold Best (“Unceasing Worship”)

37. 1. Being honest about sin.

38. 2. Serving to advance his kingdom.

39. 1. Being honest about sin. 2. Serving to advance his kingdom. 3. Suffering well.

40. 1. Being honest about sin. 2. Serving to advance his kingdom. 3. Suffering well. 4. Respecting all human life.

41. 1. Being honest about sin. 2. Serving to advance his kingdom. 3. Suffering well. 4. Respecting all human life. 5. Refusing to live autonomous lives.