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Find your humanity part 3: Male and Female
- A Great Adventure, a journey of discovery
- A desperate search for something that has been lost
- A delightful gift
Romans 5:15,18,19,23
Find your humanity...
Not 'male' or 'female'
our language of God is analogy. This means we need a rich language with both masculine and feminine metaphors for God.
sexuality
So God created humanity in his image, in the image of God he created them,
Male
and
Female
Genesis 2.
he created them.
complementarity
Male: leadership (head)
S I N
singleness
and
marriage
Female: partnership,
completer (heart)
Leadership becomes domination
Community
Completion becomes control
God's agape love brings
Christ's true leadership is self-giving sacrifice
restoration
Ephesians 5:21-33
This enables mutual submission -
self-giving for the sake of the other
through Jesus
John 8:1-11
Luke 10:38-42
John 4
Luke 7:36-50
1 Corinthians 10:16-17
ion
Galatians 3:26-28
1 Corinthians 10:18-27
'You are all SONS of God through faith in Christ...
There is no longer male and female, for you are all one in Christ...
you are HEIRS according to the promise.'
IMAGE
God said,
Let us make
humanity
in our
Before the beginning...
Father
2 Corinthians 5:18-21
The eternal community
of the Trinity
"Let US
make humanity
in
OUR image"
Holy
Spirit
So God created
humanity in his image,
in the image of God
he created them,
Male and female he created them.
Genesis 1:26-27
'My God, My God, why have you abandoned me?'
Matthew 27:45-46
Son
We are created for community
Find your humanity: only in community
The Story of the Bible:
God makes a people
Broken Community
Hebrews 12:2
Romans 10:11
- shame
Genesis 3
- fear
1 John 4:18
- blame
Romans 8:33-34
A sermon series for
Sunday Night at St John's
Cosmos
Fully Human
- Self-giving
- always seeking the best for the other person
- recognising and celebrating true humanity
'agape'
love vs lust
- only takes, only consumes
- the other person becomes an OBJECT
- degradation of true humanity
Intimacy
'into-me-see'