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I'm worried because I think Giglio has presented half a theology. He presents it wonderfully and powerfully, but doesn't he miss the better half of the message? In our church we've just finished a discussion based on Louie Giglio's "Indescribable" talks (how he remembers all the numbers I just don't know). It was good ... valuable ... lots of discussion ... but ... The universe is incredible, yes. We are fearfully and wonderfully made, yes. God paid incredible detail to making me. Wow. Now the question: what makes me ME? In Giglio's talk he marvels (as we all should) at the attention God lavished in making me. I am fearfully and wonderfully made ... no dispute. Trillions of cells in complexity ... no quarrel. But ... but ... elephants have many, many, many times more cells, molecules, and atoms than I, and they are not loved in the same way God loves "little" me. The numbers Giglio quotes come with the implied message that this biological detail is the amazing focus of God creating me. But this is not the message God is making, its only one starting point. I am made in God's image ... and what make me ME, is the soul he breaths into me. The indescribable greatness of God in making "me" is not the biological detail, but that God gives me a soul in His spiritual image ... now that's really WOW. My DNA gives me physical uniqueness, but it is my soul that defines my spiritual identity that is loved by God. My soul and body are intimately bound together, but the "me" that worships, praises, and serves starts in my soul. When my body is turned to ashes (and my decomposed DNA adds CO2 into atmosphere!) that is not the end of me, because that is not ME. Sigh: I remember Giglio's great description of the trillions and trillions ... but where is the awesomeness of God creating my soul? A major missed opportunity for this lost, yet spiritually sensitive generation?
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