SGC Dayton Messages

Seminar - Respect the Image

Profound respect. Every human being is worthy of it by virtue of being made in the likeness of God— whether your spouse, your contentious coworker, or the person who looks, speaks, or thinks differently than you. Tim Shorey aims to illustrate in this 4-session seminar based on his book, Respect the Image, that respecting others in how we listen and speak to them is essential to honoring, rejoicing in, and loving God who put his image into men and women. The glory of God is resident in every human image bearer which is wrong to ignore even if we feel we have every right. Our mouths and ears automatically veer towards disrespect, disdain, and disregard. Which means that the only hope for us to truly and properly respect individuals as fellow image bearers is to rely on a very important gospel assurance— that Jesus offers full and complete forgiveness to those who have scorned God’s image by trading our life of filthiness for his life spent perfectly respecting the image of God in others. Now we are free to begin fervently respecting others as Jesus did, by acknowledging the value and worth of every life through how we listen and speak.