Made in Our Image: What Shall We Do with a "User-Friendly" God?

For the next few posts, we’ll be looking at excerpts from Dr. Lawson’s Made in Our Image. In his introduction to the book, Dr. Lawson shares what he sees as the main problem facing the contemporary church. He says:

I believe that if there is one area of our theology that is most lacking in the church today, it is our understanding of who He really is. Our most rudimentary problem is that we do not fully comprehend who He is. Our thoughts about Him have become very unclear, fuzzy, and oblique. The result of this distorted view of deity is that it leaves everything else out of focus as well. Whenever we lose a right view of God, everything else gets out of perspective.

Essentially, our view of God will inform our view of all else. It will be the lens through which we perceive reality, and it will shape our thoughts, worldview, attitudes, and perceptions. When our view of the Almighty is erroneous, our view of other things will be erroneous as well by default.

Over the coming days, we’ll take a quick trip through Made in Our Image. Our hope is that it will encourage us together to consider our own view of God, and recognize that having an appropriate view of God will be the only thing that allows us to think clearly and correctly about everything else.

All quotations taken from Made in Our Image, by Steven Lawson.