Image of God: Our Job Title
- To be God's representatives
- We have royal blood in our veins

Cultural Mandate: The calling given to all human beings to act as God’s image-bearers by creating culture, developing the earth’s potential, and exercising responsible stewardship over all creatures.

‘subdue’ = kabash
= to exploit or enslave or abuse or even to rape
= to tame something that is wild, to bring order out of chaos, to bring harmony out of discord

"To harness the raw, uncut potential of the earth, to make something of the world that they have been dropped into so that it can flourish."

“We are commissioned as God’s image bearers, his vice-regents, charged with the task of “ruling” and caring for creation, which includes the task of cultivating it, unfolding and unfurling its latent possibilities through human making — in short, through culture.” - James K A Smith


If you’re married, how are you investing in your marriage?
If you’re a parent, how are you being a good mom or dad?

If you are neither married or a parent, how can you invest in the next generation and how can you work to make the world better for those that come after you?
How can you contribute to the flourishing of the world that you’ve been dropped into?