A Work of Art

“As attention gets more competitive, we have to crawl deeper down the brainstem to your identity and get you addicted to getting attention from other people. By adding the number of followers and likes, technology hacks our social validation and now people are obsessed with the constant feedback they get from others.”
- Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation

You are complete in Christ.
- Colossians 2:10

You are free from the law of sin and death.
- Romans 8:2

You are holy and without blame before Him in love.
- Ephesians 1:4; 1 Peter 1:16

You have received the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Jesus.
- Ephesians 1:17-18

You are a new creature in Christ.
- 2 Corinthians 5:17

You are the temple of the Holy Spirit.
- 1 Corinthians 6:19

You are the light of the world.
- Matthew 5:14

About that time there arose a great disturbance about the Way. A silversmith named Demetrius, who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought in a lot of business for the craftsmen there. He called them together, along with the workers in related trades, and said: “You know, my friends, that we receive a good income from this business. And you see and hear how this fellow Paul has convinced and led astray large numbers of people here in Ephesus and in practically the whole province of Asia. He says that gods made by human hands are no gods at all. There is danger not only that our trade will lose its good name, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be discredited…”
- Acts 19:23-27

But women will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith, love and holiness with propriety.
- 1 Timothy 2:15

For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
- Ephesians 2:8-10

For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
- Romans 1:20