KINGDOM RESCUE

Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. As people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there. They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. Then they said, “Come let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the earth.”

Genesis 11:1-4

DesireCreated By God

Twisted By Fear

Imprisoned to the lies of fear

Are we known?

But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”

Genesis 11:5-9

So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. That is why it was called Babel - because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the earth.

Who is God?Cosmic Cop

Gracious Rescuer

The most dangerous stories we make up are the narratives that diminish our inherent worthiness.

Brené Brown

God created humankind in his own image, in the image of God

he created them, male and female he created them. God

blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply! Fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over

the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that moves on the ground.

Gen. 1:27-28

Freedom + MissionThe gospel doesn’t put God’s people on hold.

The gospel is heaven, but it is also mission.

Jen Pollock Michele

Who am I? This or the other?Am I one person today and another tomorrow?Am I both at once? In front of others, a hypocrite,And to myself a contemptible, fretting weakling?Or is something still in me like a battered army,running in disorder from a victory already achieved.Who am I? These lonely questions mock me.Whoever I am, You know me, I am yours, O God.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Who Am I?

Living in the Kingdom