Ruth Naomi Floyd
In Respect the Image, Tim Shorey reminds us of the importance of being engaged listeners who seek authenticity and love genuinely as a pathway to peace with our neighbors. With biblical insight and personal transparency, Tim provides effective, practical steps to pursuing peace with those with whom we might disagree. Requiring truth-telling and vulnerability, while recognizing the full humanity of others, and embracing both our uniqueness as well as our unity in Jesus Christ as an image of the gospel, Respect the Image is a focused and helpful plea for greater listening and learning in all our relationships.
Mike Seaver
Respect the Image is a winsome, creative, and biblically faithful book that was a pure joy to read. Shorey does an excellent job of compelling the reader to grow spiritually in the important area of communication and to realize the spiritual significance of doing so. The book addresses how communication impacts racial, social, and political tensions as well as giving us practical ways to move forward with hard conversations. Respect the Image is one of the best books I've read this year, and I have already commended it to my church family.
Anthony W. Hurst Sr.
As I read this powerful and riveting book, I found myself confronted by sound theological truth that was laid out in plain, easy-to-understand language. I got no further than the first chapter before I was confronted by the bold truth Tim had penned. His winsome style of writing drew me in, making it easier for me to receive Spirit-filled correction and admonition on how I speak to others—beginning at home! This should be a sermon series for churches across our nation!
Kyle Huber
The introduction to this book is exceptional and will serve people on many levels, and the entire work is deeply theological and gospel saturated. Its applications are clear and well connected to the truths that it presents. And the writing is winsome. Although the author presses into areas that can be challenging for people, he does so with a pastoral tone and without any harshness. I would recommend this book and use it for my leadership small group (as well as any other group). It will serve the church well.
Marty Machowski
In Respect the Image, Tim Shorey provides the glasses we need in order to see people as God does and to love and honor them for who God made them to be—image bearers of the King. Shorey offers young and old, single and married, and people of all backgrounds a compelling biblical pattern for living life in relationship with one another. Get this book, read it, and live it out—you won’t be disappointed.
Diane Hunt
Expertly crafted, this rich biblical treatment of relational and racial unity is a blessing and an encouragement. Tim challenges us to see and respect the image of God in everyone—those who are like us and those who are not like us. This is a high and holy calling that, if every believer heeds it, will glorify the one true God and bring change to our homes, communities, churches, and nation. Here is a practical book to read often and practice always.
Jeffrey S. Black
There are Christian resources on communication in human relationships that tell the reader lots of stories but fail to connect these practical anecdotes, challenges, and instructions to biblical truths that transform the heart. On the other hand, there are resources that tell the reader eternal truths about conducting relationships as God intended but that leave the reader with little in the way of procedural knowledge—with no practical answers to "How do I do that?" Respect the Image helps us all precisely because Tim aims to make every truth transformative and every story connect to the truth.
Dr. Anthony W. Hurst
As I read this powerful and riveting book, I found myself confronted by sound, theological truth laid out in plain , easy-to-understand language. I got no further than the first chapter before I was confronted by the bold truth penned by Tim. His winsome style of writing drew me in, making it easier to receive Spirit-filled correction and admonition on how I speak to others, beginning at home! This should be a sermon series for churches across our nation!
