GOD LIKES YOU

'Forgetting God’s delight and joy in us stunts our ability to enjoy God’s love. Forgiveness – as beautiful and crucial as it is not enough.'

Kelly M Kapic, You're Only Human, p.19.

IT TAKES THE BODY OF CHRIST TO BE LIKE CHRIST

'It Takes an Entire Community to Reflect the One Messiah.'
Kelly M Kapic, You're Only Human, p.177.

ANTHROPOLOGY STARTS WITH CHRISTOLOGY?

'I am convinced that only when we have grasped the implications of the humanity of Jesus will we be able to properly assess our own humanity. The doctrine that the Word became flesh means that God himself affirms our flesh as good, and that affirmation liberates us from apologizing for our creaturely limitations. If we believe that Jesus, who was free from all sin, was fully human, then this means that he considered creaturely restrictions to be part of his good creation and not evil at all. It means that we must not apologize for what the Son of God freely embraces.'

Kelly M Kapic, You're Only Human: How Your Limits Reflect God's Design and Why That's Good News, p.43.

INTIMACY IS KEY TO HUMANITY

'Humans are distinctly made to respond to God with a level of intimacy that distinguishes them from the rest of the creaturely realm.' 

Kelly M Kapic, 'Anthropology' in Christian Dogmatics: Reformed Theology for the Church Catholic (Edited by Michael Allen & Scott R Swain), p.182.  

BEING HUMAN IS ALL ABOUT COMMUNION

'Being human in God's image is fundamentally about communion, loving God and neighbor. That is always an embodied love, a love that fully engages the whole human being...

...What makes us human is our distinctive ability to love and commune with God, other humans, and the earth.' 

Kelly M Kapic, 'Anthropology' in Christian Dogmatics: Reformed Theology for the Church Catholic (Edited by Michael Allen & Scott R Swain), p.178.