Get Out of the Ghetto
By the power of the Holy Spirit, Jesus’ church must reject ghetto living and persevere in pursuing reconciliation.
Introduction
Coexistence
Conctruction
Like Jacob’s staircase (see Gen. 28:12), the ziggurat mountain, with its roots in the earth and its lofty top in the clouds, served in mythopoeic thought as a gate to heaven. This humanly created mountain gave humanity access to heaven (28:17) and served as a convenient stairway for the gods to come down into their temple and into the city.
Confusion
Community
The image of God is much too rich for it to be fully realized in a single human being, however richly gifted that human being may be.
Only humanity in its entirety—as one complete organism, summed up under a single head, spread out over the whole earth, as prophet proclaiming the truth of God, as priest dedicating itself to God, as ruler controlling the earth and the whole of creation—only it is the fully finished image, the most telling and striking likeness of God.