Word for the Week

Week beginning: 23rd November, 2014

By Caroline Eade | Cambridge

"For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters."

Romans 8:29 NIV 2011

Debates about predestination can easily mean we miss the key point of this verse - that our destiny and destination as Christians is to become like Jesus. The sense is not that we become clones of him, undifferentiated and indistinguishable. The vers