Are our Images of God Growing?
What is meant by the question "is God western?"
Do we make God the "flag-bearer of the culture in which we were raised?"
What options does a person have if their image of God is contradicted by a painful experience?
1. Continue with that same image and complain about it 2. Quit believing altogether 3. Find images that do justice to all of God's self-revelation and all of life as one has experienced it *the author compares these options to shoes and what you do if you grow out of them*
Why does the Bible contain varied images of God?
Because God inspired these diverse images
Why is it important to challenge our childhood images of God?
If we fail to see how our childhood images of God are incomplete, we risk stunting our growth toward an adult faith
What else is affected when we choose to alter our image of God?
Our self-image and the way we see other people
Where must followers of Jesus first turn for their image of God?
The Hebrew and Christian Scriptures
How is the tendency to use exclusively male language when we talk about God, being challenged today?
When believers point out that both the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament apply traditionally "feminine" characteristics to God
