Embracing Our Divine Partnership: Understanding Human Agency in Genesis (To Be Human Series)

Voxology

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 3 June 2024

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Discover how reimagining our role in God's creation transforms our understanding of sovereignty, agency, and the divine partnership intended from the beginning. Mike Erre and Tim Stafford delve into Genesis to explore how humans are invited to actively participate in God's work, challenging misconceptions about God's control and our own passivity.

Key Takeaways:
• The True Meaning of Dominion – Unpacking what it means to be made in God's image and exercise dominion that reflects His character and goodness.
• God's Sovereignty and Human Agency – Examining the partnership between God and humanity, where our actions are integral to His work in the world.
• Challenging Misconceptions – Addressing beliefs that everything happening is God's will, and how this affects our understanding of suffering and responsibility.
• Active Participation vs. Passive Waiting – Encouraging listeners to engage proactively in God's mission without falling into extremes of control or resignation.

Resources Mentioned:
• Genesis Chapters 1 and 2 – Foundational texts on creation and human purpose.
• Dallas Willard's Teachings – Insights on spiritual formation and divine partnership.
• Tim Gombis's Works – Discussions on God's sovereignty and human participation.

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0:00.0	Hey folks, welcome to the 458th episode of the Voxology podcast. I just want to give you a little
0:08.7	rundown. We spend a few minutes at the beginning of the episode talking about an email asking
0:14.4	about titles such as Apostle, whether we should be using, acknowledging, respecting those titles and terms, what has changed over the last couple
0:24.9	thousand years.
0:26.8	And then a Mike brings up a questionnaire, a Christian therapist, kind of vetting questionnaire
0:35.9	that he found online, whether or not that kind of stuff is useful
0:39.4	or not useful when trying to find a therapist we do get a lot of questions about how to find a good
0:44.1	therapist so is this questionnaire helpful or not is something that we kind of parse through
0:50.6	and then at about the 23 minute mark we we get into the content today, back into
0:56.3	Genesis, and talking about kind of a divine partnership that we have with God and how that was
1:04.8	set up and what that looks like. Welcome to the Voxology podcast.
1:28.1	I have Timothy John Stafford.
1:30.5	I have a question that came in.
1:40.9	Dear Archduke of Zaxby's, his most excellency, Seth, semi-colon, Pastor Mike and Professor Tim.
1:46.5	With the most recent power over discussion around titles, my question is in regards to the title Apostle.
1:48.3	It seems to me that this is an example of the early church still allowing those with
1:51.7	that title to be held in high regard.
1:54.2	As it is a title used throughout the New Testament, is this an example of the church
1:57.9	still not following the teachings of Jesus?
2:00.9	And is this a title we should actually still be using to describe Paul, Peter, John, etc?
2:06.1	What about referring to them as one of the 12, which is inherently,
2:10.2	which inherently is accompanied with a certain level of privilege and authority?
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