When you sign your name to something, whose name are you actually signing?

Drawing from John 17, Matthew explores how sonship works like a signature — our identity and purpose aren't self-derived, but carried on behalf of the Father whose name we bear. This teaching looks at what it means to let that signature hold steady in life's pressure points, and why staying submitted to spiritual fathering matters for carrying it faithfully.

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Continuing directly from The Restoration of Sonship, Matthew opens with 1 Corinthians 15:21 to introduce two templates every believer lives between: Adam and Christ. The Adam template represents independence, slavery to sin, and disconnection from God. The Christ template represents total dependence on God and the pursuit of his original intent for humanity. At any given moment, you're operating out of one or the other — there's no neutral ground.

This teaching explores what it actually means to be "born again" while still wrestling with Adamic tendencies, and unpacks the Holy Spirit's role in helping us grow into the template of Christ — not as a single decision made once, but a daily choice about which mold we let shape our response to the moment in front of us.

In this teaching:

• The two templates every believer lives between: Adam and Christ
• Why being saved doesn't mean the Adamic pull disappears
• The Holy Spirit's role in our sonship journey
• Why this is a daily choice, not a one-time event

Before anything was created, God had already decided what you would be.

In this teaching from 2024, Matthew opens the foundational message in the Sonship series — starting at the very beginning, Genesis 1:26-27, to unpack why humanity was made to carry God's image and likeness. But image and likeness were never meant to function on their own; they flow through a relationship. Through Ephesians 1:4-5 and Romans 8:29, Matthew traces how sonship was God's plan before creation itself — not an afterthought, not a consolation prize after the fall, but the original design.

When Adam disconnected from that identity through disobedience, creation itself was affected. This message lays the groundwork for everything that follows in the series: as sonship is restored in us, the environments around us — our relationships, our communities — begin to be restored too.

If you're just discovering this series, this is the place to start.

In this teaching:

• Why sonship was God's eternal plan, not a backup plan
• What image and likeness actually mean
• How Adam's disconnection affected creation itself
• Why restoring sonship changes everything around you