‘There are no gradations in the image of God. Every man from a treble white to a bass black is significant on God’s keyboard, precisely because every man is made in the image of God. One day we will learn that.’ 

Martin Luther King Jr.

On Sunday I spoke at Aston and Cote Community Church, as part of their series on Genesis 1–11. We considered the (rather daunting!) topic of what it means to be made in the image of God, and I explored what that phrase meant in its Ancient Near Eastern context; how we should understand our commission as Priests and Kings, filled with God’s Spirit; and how the gospels portray Jesus as the true Image Bearer, who has come to rescue and restore us to our intended identity.

If you’d like to catch up, you can watch the video below. And you can download the slides here.

The books I recommended are:

• Being God’s Image – Carmen Joy Imes
• The Liberating Image – J. Richard Middleton
• The Imago Dei – Lucy Peppiatt
• Culture Making – Andy Crouch

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