Teaching
Teachings from Stairway’s Sunday services are uploaded here each week. It’s our prayer that these bless and supplement, rather than replace, your presence in your own local church and your submission to the leaders that God has placed around you for your spiritual growth. You can subscribe to the Stairway podcast on Spotify or Apple Podcasts, and access past series below.
The Gift of Being Human in a Dehumanising World
Genesis 1:26-27
Then God said, “Let us make a man and a woman in our image to be like us. Let them reign over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the livestock, over the creatures that creep along the ground, and over the wild animals.” So God created man and woman and shaped them with his image inside them. In his own beautiful image, he created his masterpiece. Yes, male and female he created them.
There is a gift in being human, and it is founded in the reality that we are made in the image of God—the Imago Dei. To be made in His image is to receive astounding dignity. “God bestowed on humans: the position of a special creature among all His creations… He has placed humanity as “the crown of His creation.” As His masterpiece, we are entrusted with the privilege of stewarding creation and partnering with Him in drawing out its order, beauty, and abundance. This is the wonder, calling and gift of being human.
The challenge is that we live in a dehumanising world—a world that seeks to distort the very image that we were created in. The disease of sin has permeated all areas of life—culture, politics, technology—and has the potential to steal the gift of being human through eroding His image in us. We need a rehumanising revolution.
This series will explore what it means to be human as ones who are created in the image of a Trinitarian community of love, joy, abundance and beauty, and how we can navigate the ever-changing landscape of a world that seeks to dehumanise God's masterpiece.
Sermons
Past Teachings
One Generation
The Passion–Preparation + Purification
Invitation to Communion
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Matt Romano — What does it actually mean to be human? In a world that measures your worth by your output, defines you by your productivity, and quietly shapes you into something more efficient than alive, it might be the most urgent question of our time.
In this first message, we go back to Genesis 1 and the ancient truth that every human being, not just the powerful, not just the successful, is made in the image of God.
Matt Romano — What does it actually mean to be human? In a world that measures your worth by your output, defines you by your productivity, and quietly shapes you into something more efficient than alive, it might be the most urgent question of our time.
In this first message, we go back to Genesis 1 and the ancient truth that every human being, not just the powerful, not just the successful, is made in the image of God. We explore what that meant in the ancient world, what it demands of us in the modern one, and what it looks like to actually live it out in the texture of an ordinary week.
For anyone tired of being measured by what they produce. For anyone who feels the creeping sense that life is full but something essential is missing. For anyone who suspects that they were made for something deeper than the pace at which they are living at.
Your worth was settled before your first achievement. Your identity was given before your first success. Your worth is found in the Imago Dei
Resources — Study Guide