Fearfully and wonderfully made! That would be us!

I'm doing a wee teaching seminar this weekend on BUILDING ON YOUR STRENGTHS - GOD MADE YOU AWESOME!

So here are some of my thoughts, sort of a pre-seminar taster...

• I've come to conclude that the Imago Dei is perhaps "bigger" in us as humans than we evangelicals have thought...
• God has created humanity - men and women - in his image and that image, though tarnished and cracked by sin and our ungodly environment (the world) is strong...
• (one author says we're "cracked eikons")
• We are often more conscious of our "fallen-ness" than our our innate strengths...
• We are mostly more concerned about weaknesses than we are strengths...
• We are afraid to recognize our strengths and therefore cannot actually build on them...
• We should use our strengths to manage our weaknesses... (I talked a little about this on Sunday at Harvest@5...)
• There are patterns in our life that display our strengths...

Anyway, it's two sessions - Friday night at 7PM and Saturday morning at 9.  We'll do this in the classroom at Globe International.

And I'm totally pumped!  God has truly made us awesome!