The Grand Design
Lies about what it means to be male and female lead to brokenness and poverty. Being made in the image of God means there is purpose and intention in our design. When we understand this and live it out, we experience flourishing that radiates into our families and the lives of those around us.
We need to rediscover the Grand Design.
As we have abandoned the Creator and his creation, we have lost our way. We no longer know who we are as individuals, what it means to be human or what it means to be male and female. Our personal and family lives are shattered.
What you'll learn
Rediscover both Male and Female as Imago Dei. We encourage you to go through this series with a group of friends and benefit by exploring this content together.
You will experience a series of eight main video lessons that cover the main themes of this course. Alongside each of these you'll find 2-3 optional video lessons that will take you deeper into the topic if you wish, or you can pass these by and go on to the next main topic. Either way, we are confident you will benefit.
Lessons
The Deadliest Lie, one of the greatest lies that keep people in poverty, is that men are superior to women. God has created both men and women in his image, and we need to fight back against this lie. Includes two optional videos: The War Against Women and The Spiritual Root of Sexist Culture.
The one true monotheistic God stands outside space and time and reveals himself as community, the one and many God, the Trinity. He created the universe in the pattern of his own nature, unity and diversity. This includes the binary and complementary nature of living things, climaxing in the male and female human.
We are endowed with some of God's communicable (shared) attributes. We have a mind — the attribute of intelligence, a heart — the attribute of morals, and a will — the attribute of purpose. Every human being, male and female, is made "like" God.
To represent the image of God requires binary, female and male. To fulfill the Cultural Mandate requires the full complementary masculine and feminine natures. The woman is the crescendo of creation reflecting the maternal heart of God.
God is our Father. Throughout the scriptures he identifies himself with male pronouns. He has a paternal heart; he endowed men to be fathers. In a world where men are so lost, it is imperative that they understand the paternal heart of God.
But where did the maternal heart come from? It came from the nurturing heart of God. This profound truth is critical for both men and women to understand.
The poet and lawyer William Ross Wallace famously wrote: “For the hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.” The woman’s heritage, through her nurturing nature, is to shape the future women and men who will govern the marketplace and the public square.
Before Modern Feminism, there was Maternal Feminism.
Maternal feminists affirmed female nature. They understood they had dignity because they were made in the image of God.
Congratulations! You have reached the final lesson in the Grand Design -- and an important one.
God is the original model of leadership for men and women. As a leader he demonstrates humility, self-sacrifice and other-serving love. Service is the highest of virtues. We are called and purposed to imitate God.
CONGRATULATIONS! You have reached the final part of the Grand Design.
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