What Does Jesus Say About the Value of Life? | Chapel Hill Church Gig Harbor

What Does Jesus Say About the Value of Life? | Chapel Hill Church Gig Harbor

What makes a human life valuable? Most of us would say we believe every life matters. But when it actually costs us something, that belief gets tested fast.
In this message, Pastor Ellis explores what Jesus says about the value of life, rooted in a surprising exchange about taxes and a coin bearing Caesar’s image.

1. The way our culture ties personal value to productivity and achievement, and why that leaves so many people feeling like they’re worth more on their best days than their worst
2. What Jesus says in Luke 20 about giving to God what bears God’s image, and what that means for how we understand human worth
Genesis 1:27 and the imago dei: every human being carries the image of God, and nothing, not sin, not failure, not how the world has treated you, changes that
3. What it actually means to value human life in practice: the elderly, the disabled, the unborn, the immigrant, the addict, and the people our culture would rather ignore
4. The real question: not whether we believe human life has value, but whether we’re willing to pay the cost of living like it does

If someone has ever made you feel worthless, or if you’ve been carrying guilt about the value of another life, this message is for you.