The document summarizes a biblical story about the Tower of Babel. It tells of how the whole world originally spoke one language, but the people decided to build a tower to reach heaven. God saw this and confused their languages, scattering them across the earth. The document reflects on who God is and humanity's identity and purpose as created in God's image to fill and rule over the earth. It encourages living according to God's kingdom rather than being imprisoned by fear.

1. KINGDOM RESCUE

5. Now the whole world had one language and a
common speech.As people moved eastward, they
found a plain in Shinar and settled there.They said to
each other,“Come, let’s make bricks and bake them
thoroughly.”They used brick instead of stone, and tar
for mortar.Then they said,“Come let us build ourselves
a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that
we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will
be scattered over the face of the earth.”
Genesis 11:1-4

6. Desire
Created By God
Twisted By Fear

7. Imprisoned to
the lies of fear

8. Are we known?

9. But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower
the people were building.The Lord said,“If as one people
speaking the same language they have begun to do this,
then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.
Come, let us go down and confuse their language so
they will not understand each other.”
Genesis 11:5-9

10. So the Lord scattered them from there over all the
earth, and they stopped building the city.That is why it
was called Babel - because there the Lord confused the
language of the whole world. From there the Lord
scattered them over the face of the earth.

11. Who is God?
Cosmic Cop
Gracious Rescuer

12. The most dangerous stories we make up are the
narratives that diminish our inherent worthiness.
Brené Brown

13. God created humankind in his
own image, in the image of God
he created them, male and
female he created them. God
blessed them and said to them,
“Be fruitful and multiply! Fill the
earth and subdue it. Rule over
the fish of the sea and the birds
of the air and every creature
that moves on the ground.
Gen. 1:27-28

14. Freedom + Mission
The gospel doesn’t put God’s people on hold.
The gospel is heaven, but it is also mission.
Jen Pollock Michele

15. Who am I?This or the other?
Am I one person today and another tomorrow?
Am I both at once? In front of others, a hypocrite,
And to myself a contemptible, fretting weakling?
Or is something still in me like a battered army,
running in disorder from a victory already achieved.
Who am I?These lonely questions mock me.
Whoever I am, You know me, I am yours, O God.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Who Am I?

16. Living in the Kingdom