In this series we looked at God, our bodies, our community, our value, and our sin. Now we'll put it all together to hopefully see ourselves truthfully, and see that Jesus Christ, who is the image of God, is transforming our characters, our bodies, and our minds, to be more and more like Him.

We’ve learned how to see ourselves rightly by looking at the image of God. We reflect Him in our very being, our bodies, our communities, and in our value. But there is a problem: we have conformed to this world, and we need transformation.

How do you determine your value? What does that question make you look at in yourself? What do you assess? Are you looking through the right lens? We've been learning that to develop spiritually we need to know ourselves rightly, and an important part of that is knowing our value rightly.

Part of knowing yourself rightly is to know how your community affects you, for the good or the bad. Spiritual growth is not just personal, it's also corporate. We need one another as we strive to be like Christ.

Last week we looked at being made in the image of God, but we left out one thing: our bodies! Our culture is, at best, confused on this topic. We don’t love the human body rightly; we worship it, hate it, or ignore it. But we are to love our bodies as God does—surrendering them to his will, because he loves our bodies.