Made in Our Image The Fallacy of the User-Friendly God

by Lawson, Steven J.

• ISBN13: 9781576736104
• ISBN10: 1576736105
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-05-10
• Publisher: Multnomah

Summary

Digital imaging can alter a picture so fast it leaves people asking, "What is reality?" Have we bought into a user-friendly, "designer" God of our own? In his eighth provocative primer on Christian living, Pastor Steven Lawson asks if we're seeing a true picture of God these days, or a distorted one designed to fit a popular image on the present cultural canvas? Lawson tackles the timely topic on the personal and greater church levels. Non-condemning, Made in Our Image alerts readers to the dangers of a socially constructed deity and inspires them to "accept no counterfeits" for the true, living, sometimes "socially incorrect" God.

Author Biography

Steven Lawson pastors the Dauphin Way Baptist Church in Mobile, Alabama. He earned his master's degree at Dallas Theological Seminary and received the Doctor of Ministry degree from Reformed Theological Seminary

Table of Contents

Foreword	9	(11)
John MacArthur
Foreword	11	(3)
R. Albert Mohler
Acknowledgments	14	(1)
Introduction	15	(6)
Part One: The Exploitation of God
Encountering the Almighty
The Contemplation of God	21	(10)
Spray Painting the Masterpiece
The Distortion of God, Part 1	31	(12)
Reducing the Irreducible
The Distortion of God, Part 2	43	(18)
Part Two: The Essence of God
So, Who Really Is God?
The Person of God	61	(14)
Wholly, Wholly Holy!
The Holiness of God	75	(16)
He Is the King!
The Sovereignty of God	91	(16)
The Black Velvet Backdrop
The Wrath of God	107	(16)
The Most Profound Truth Ever Known
The Love of God	123	(14)
Pursued by His Mercy
The Goodness of God	137	(14)
Only God Is Great!
The Glory of God	151	(14)
The Greatest Glory
The Cross of God	165	(16)
Part Three: The Experience of God
Up Close and Personal
The True Knowledge of God	181	(12)
Whatever Happened to the Fear of God?
The Reverence for God	193	(16)
High and Lifted Up
The Exaltation of God	209