First, God builds God’s kingdom. The kingdom itself is not manufactured or constructed by human hands. Be that as it may, God has ordered his world in such a way that his own work within that world takes place precisely through his creatures, in particular, the human beings who reflect his image. That is central to what it means to be ‘made in God’s image’. God intends his wise, creative, loving presence and power to be reflected, ‘imaged’ if you like, into his world through his human creatures. God has enlisted us to act as his stewards in the project of creation and in new creation.
