2. Transformed life WHO AM I? WHERE DO I FIT? WHAT AM I LIVING FOR Identity, belonging, purpose.

3. TRANSFORMED LIFE Marvellously made ‘So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it.”’ (Genesis 1:27–28). ORIGINAL IDENTITY – made in the image of God ORIGINAL BELONGING- in human community ORIGINAL PURPOSE- to be co-rulers and stewards

4. TRANSFORMED LIFE Bertrand Russell said, “We are the product of causes that had no prevision of the end they were achieving. The hopes, fears, loves, and beliefs of our minds are just the outcome of the accidental collocation of atoms.” “Scientifically, I see no reason for attributing to a man a significance different in kind from that which belongs to a baboon or a grain of sand.” Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

5. TRANSFORMED LIFE “There are no ordinary people.” “You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations [and] civilizations—these are mortal [because they’re going to end], and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit—immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. C.S. Lewis

6. TRANSFORMED LIFE 2. FATALLY FLAWED All have sinned and fallen short of the Glory of God. Romans 3 v23 3. TOTALLY TRANSFORMED God does an immediate work and then an ongoing work. Being ‘IN Christ’ is the KEY

7. Transformed life 26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, [a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”a 27 So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. 28 God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”