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We're in week three of a series we're calling God's good design, looking at God's good design

for creation, humanity, sexuality, work, rest, marriage, all in the

first two chapters of the Bible, knowing we're living in a day where these foundations are

being radically redefined in ways that are contrary to God's good design for us.

And as a result, in ways that are not good for us.

I love the way Mike put it the first week.

He said, when oceans transgress their designed boundaries,

we call that a disaster.

And when we transgress God's good design for our lives,

it's tragic. And tragic is the right word, particularly as we approach

this topic of humanity today. So here's the fundamental question we're going to answer today.

What does it mean to be human? And how we answer that question can lead to tremendous good in the world or horrendous evil.

I think of all the good in history that's been done on behalf of the poor and the oppressed,

the unborn, the enslaved, the abused, the disabled, and when people have believed that all humans have dignity and worth.

This last week at our church family meeting, we shared about a partnership we've started

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