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The Father's Mandate: A Call to Kingdom Leadership

The question of purpose is the first question that each individual must ask to live a life of meaning and significance. 

There's no better place to discover an answer  for this question than to Genesis 1, where it all began.

In Genesis 1, we find our Creator God issuing the first mandate to humankind, the male and the female:

Then God said, ‘Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild animals of the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.’
So God created humankind in his image,
   in the image of God he created them;
   male and female he created them.
God blessed them, and God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.’ (Genesis 1:26-28, NRSV, emphasis added)

Twice "let them have dominion" is repeated in these verses.  They must be of great importance.  Being created in the image of our Creator God means among other things, "to have dominion, to lead, to rule."

Our Father's mandate is for us, humankind, to exercise kingdom leadership on what he has entrusted to us---creation.

More on the implications of this mandate later...

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