Slides for a talk given at Blazing Fire Church as part of a series about our core values. The podcast can be found at: http://blazingfire.podbean.com/e/the-intrisic-worth-of-all-people-russ-fochler-mark-zarbuin-1421592743/
3. Understanding
• How our evaluation of people has been
shaped
• Clarifying how our Creator and
Redeemer values people
• That we are invited to join Father God in
seeing and helping people “unpack” the
fullness of who they are created to be.
4. Our Internal “Model”
about People
Assumptions from
Childhood
Our “Theology”
about human nature
News Stories
Awareness of our own
shortcomings
Impressions from
Holy Spirit
Past Experiences
What We’ve Been
Taught to Value
5. Clarifying how our Creator and
Redeemer Values people
• “For God so LOVED the world…. John 3:16
• 2 …looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of
our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him
endured the cross, despising the shame, and has
sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Heb 12:2 NKJV
• Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has
not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we
know that when He is revealed, we shall be like
Him, for we shall see Him as He is. 1 John 3:2
6. O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the
earth!You have set your glory above the heavens.
2 Out of the mouth of babies and infants,you have
established strength because of your foes, to still the
enemy and the avenger.
3 When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
4 what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of
man that you care for him?
5 Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly
beings and crowned him with glory and honor.
6 You have given him dominion over the works of your
hands; you have put all things under his feet,
Psalm 8 ESV
7. Any Theology that Devalues People
Will Twist Love and Lead to
Performance and Addictions
Wm Paul Young (author of “The Shack” and “Cross
Roads”) shares a conversation with his friend Pastor Wade
Burleson and begins a story about Jeannie. (5:43)
8. To Listen to more of these
stories by Wm PaulYoung
• If you listen to podcasts via iTunes or an app on
your phone, you can search for “Winds of
Change Bay Area”
• Or you can go to
windsofchangebayarea.podbean.com
• The talks by PaulYoung are the most recently
added. Wade’s and Jeannie’s stories are in the
11-4-2013 talk at Kainos Church in Santa Cruz.
Dorcas’ story (coming up) is in the 11-1-2013
talk at Kainos (both through Helen Annie’s work).
10. Dorcas of the Dani Tribe
In the highlands of Irian Jaya/Papua
Wm Paul
Young’s
Story
11. And He said to them,“Why did you
seek Me? Did you not know that I
must be about My Father’s business?”
Luke 2:49 NKJV
12. Intrinsic Worth
• Every human conceived has great intrinsic
worth - bestowed upon us by our Creator and
redeemed by our Savior Jesus.
• The brokenness we experience in this world is
proof of the great hatred Satan has for the one
class of beings (human beings) the Trinity has
chosen to have the deepest level of community
with.
• Through fellowship with Holy Spirit, our human
spirit can perceive glimpses of what we are
each becoming! (2 Cor 5:16, 1Cor 1:9-16)
13. Beloved, now we are children of
God; and it has not yet been
revealed what we shall be, but we
know that when He is revealed, we
shall be like Him, for we shall see
Him as He is. 1 John 3:2
