An Authentic Change Series             Action Introduction:When I was a teenager, I had a deep seated hatred and fear of trucks. No matter where I was driving in Edmonton their was always somebody with a giant, supped up truck. And they almost always drove like a jerk. I don’t know about out here but in the city people with giant trucks would constantly be trying to cut you off, or tailgate you or push you out of a lane. As a teenager trucks made me really angry. I was still learning how to drive and some jerk was trying to push me around. This happens in our world all the time today. The idea that might makes right. That if I’m bigger then you, or stronger then you or in a higher position then you, then I get to do whatever I want. Our culture is set up on the idea that competition is best. That’s how are markets work, that’s how are sports works and I think the sad thing is that sometimes that’s how are church’s work. How many times have you seen this in church. Where the person who is the loudest, or the most connected or the most influential gets everything they want well other needs, important needs, are ignored. I’ve seen it time and time again, even in our best church’s Today we are going to finish up are talk on core values, the roadsigns in how we become an authentic church. One about Knowing Jesus & Making Him Known. We’ve talked about how we need to be people marked by an attitude of growth and servant. People who really know Jesus in their minds and their attitues. We’ve talked about how we need to be a church marked by our heart for mission, in telling others about Jesus. Today we look at the final piece. If we want to be the church our town needs then we to adopt this final core value, action. Section 1: Image of GodThe need for actions comes at the very beginning of the Bible. In the book of Genesis we get the story of creation. How God formed the world from the waste and wild. After he makes the universe, the stars and planets and planet and animals, God creates humanity. This is what the bible says, “Then God said, “Let Us  make man in Our image, according to Our likeness.  They will rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the livestock, all the earth,  and the creatures that crawl  on the earth.” 27 So God created man in His own image; He created him in the image of God; He created them male and female.”  God created man in his image. You might be wondering what that means. It’s actually really simple the word “image” in Hebrew means “idol”. It’s the same word that the bible uses to describe the idols of other god. So human’s are the idols of god in the same way that people make idols for other deities. Where other god’s have statue’s of metal or wood to represent them god is represented in living flesh. This is important in our need for action. If all people are the image or idol of God, then all people whether Christian or not carry are worthy of dignity and respect from us. Let me explain it like this. a young boy is the image of their father. Even if their child looks nothing like them physically, that child is spiritual and emotional like their father. Anything done to that child is either a blessing to their father or an insult to their father. If you make fun of a man’s son you can be sure he’s going to deal with it.and this image grows more recognizable as the child matures. The child mirrors the attitudes, expressions, and character traits of his or her father. Genesis gives us the key that while we are all in the image of God, we likewise have the capacity to become more and more in the image of God; that is, we were created with the potential to become more like Jesus. But even those furthest from god. The most broken hateful and despised people have the image of God in them. Even Hitler was a child of God. Even the most hideous souls are worthy of dignity. In the book of Matthew, Je