Called to Create: A Biblical Invitation to Create, Innovate, and Risk
importantly, the biblical teaching on creation is a charge, a mission, a commission that sends us into God’s good but broken world with a calling. We can summarize this (com)mission in three verbs: image, unfold, and occupy.
James K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
The Bible begins with creation, Mark thinks this is a very intentional message. We were made to create. Mark h as made religion more of a priority in his life since having children.
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Second, you are called to unfold creation’s potential. Notice in Genesis 1:28–30 that our task as image bearers is to be fruitful and multiply (the fun part!), to “cultivate” the earth, and to “have dominion” over creation. Creation is indeed very good, but that doesn’t mean that it is complete.
James K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
Creation is destination, the consequence of acts that appear inconsequential by themselves but that, when accumulated, change the world. Creating is an ordinary act, creation its extraordinary outcome.
Kevin Ashton • How to Fly a Horse: The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery
Creation is empowerment. That is the radical proposition at the heart of the Hebrew Bible.
Jonathan Sacks • To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility
Thus, to be created in God’s image also refers to our having creative dominion within the world. And to be maximally creative also requires that we are vulnerable.