Trevor Hudson - God has stepped into human history

[musicalpreacher]

(contd) might see in Jesus a God who gives himself away. The spiritual formation question becomes one of how we place our very image of God into the hands of God for the shaping, since our dysfunctional images of God not only affect our behavior but are a result of our own dysfunctions.

Steve West

[musicalpreacher]

Loved these two! I think one reason the question of what our picture of God is like is a difficult one is that it works in the reverse. It's not just that we become like the God we picture, but that the way we see God has a strange resemblance to who we already are. We tend to redraw God in our own image. We can also fashion our picture of Jesus in our own image. If we are angry, we might see in him the angry God who turns the tables over in the temple. If we tend toward self esteem issues we m