Parenting 101 Part 3 - Made In His Image - 7.13.25

Joshua Boyd

In the early days of the church, the disciples acted so much like Jesus that people started calling them by a new name:  Christian – little Christ or follower of Christ.  They were talking, acting and doing the same things that Jesus did.  And people noticed.  

Acts 11:26

When he found him, he brought him back to Antioch. Both of them stayed there with the church for a full year, teaching large crowds of people. (It was at Antioch that the believers were first called Christians.)          

Today is part 3 of the Parenting 101 series, ‘Made in His Image’.  Turn to Genesis 1:27

Genesis 1:27

So God created human beings in his own image.

    In the image of God he created them;

    male and female he created them.

You and I, all humans, were created in the image of God.  We aren’t even just talking about Christians.  Think about that.  The worst sinner is still created in the image of God.  He has a spirit, a soul and a body, a triune being just like the Creator.  He has the capacity to use his words to get things done on the earth, just like God.  

That doesn’t make God his Father.  In fact, every human is born with Satan as their father.  Not my precious baby!  

The sinner isn’t acting like God. The sinner’s words have power, but are being used to bring darkness and death, not the light and life the Words of God bring. This is why Jesus rebuked the religious leaders of the time, and offended them, by telling them they were acting like their father Satan.  They were lying just like Satan, the father of lies.  

No all humans are not all God’s children.  There is a special process for being accepted into the beloved – making Jesus Christ the Lord and master of your life, accepting His sacrifice for your sins and receiving His salvation.  Then you are born – again into another family!  

When we are born again, our spirit becomes a new creature created in the image of God’s Spirit.  We no longer have the blemish of sin that comes with being a natural born human.  Our spirit is now a spotless perfect container that the spotless perfect God can inhabit.  He dwells in us.  Oh what a powerful life we can live when we begin to understand where we stand with our Father.  

As Christians, our number one responsibility is to reproduce ourselves.  Be fruitful and multiply.  Go and make disciples.  

Proverbs 11:30

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, And he who wins souls is wise.