Why God Made You
Cascading Identity, The Gift And The Grind, And Finding Purpose
The premier guiding theological principle for me in recent years? Easy—Genesis 1:26–28.
Whether I’m wrestling with what it means to be a Multipotentialite (yes, it’s a thing) or diagnosing what’s gone sideways in the Church-at-large, it all runs through the lens of those three verses. Why? Because these are God’s first words to humanity. That alone should make us sit up and take notes. This is the divine “how-the-cookie-crumbles” talk—the original blueprint.
And this isn’t some fringe Old Testament passage that gets quietly retired in the New Covenant. Far from it. Genesis 1–3 is referenced over 30 times in the New Testament. Paul builds anthropology on it. Jesus builds marriage on it. John builds Christology on it. The early Church saw it as foundational, and so should we.
So, I’ve been shaping something around this. A sermon, a framework, maybe even a personal theology of purpose. It’s a way of seeing the world that doesn’t just explain what we’re called to, but who we are, and why most of the confusion in modern life clears up when you actually take this seriously:
