The S.E.E. Foundation

From navigation to invitation

S.E.E. began as three choices at the entrance of the 426 IMAGO DEI website. As the work developed, the founder described a deeper purpose: an invitation to seek God, encounter Him, and explore His Word, His character, His kingdom, and the identity given through Christ.

“O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.” — Psalm 34:8, KJV. “Come and see.” — John 1:39, KJV. These passages express an invitation that reaches beyond the website.

God first. Ministry first.

426 IMAGO DEI is first a ministry. Apparel, publications, collections, education, and creative expressions serve that foundation. We want people to have an opportunity to understand the message behind a garment, a collection, or a work of art.

A visitor need not understand everything to be welcomed, and a customer is not required to pass through teaching before purchasing. The opportunity for understanding is intentionally placed before the commercial invitation. Read Matthew 6:33.

SEEK — pursue God

Seek is an invitation for those discovering Christ, those with questions, those returning, and those who have walked with Him for years. Believers continue seeking His kingdom, righteousness, wisdom, and will.

Read Jeremiah 29:13 in its context of God’s promise to the exiles, Matthew 6:33, and John 1:38–39. S.E.E. is a ministry framework, not a phrase presented as a biblical acronym.

ENCOUNTER — respond to God

Encounter is for everyone. We continue to need His truth, correction, renewal, and guidance. We do not come because God has abandoned us; our relationship with Him is living and ongoing.

An encounter need not be dramatic. It may involve conviction through Scripture, repentance, quiet obedience, endurance, or a deeper understanding of truth. No animation, atmosphere, prayer script, or breathing exercise guarantees an encounter with God. God transforms lives.

Read John 4:23–24, James 4:8, John 15:4–5, and Romans 12:2.

EXPLORE — continue growing

Explore invites deeper study of Scripture and the meaning of salvation, discipleship, surrender, holiness, stewardship, and kingdom living. Knowing God is not a single event but an ongoing relationship through Jesus Christ.

Read Colossians 2:6–7, 2 Timothy 3:16–17, and Romans 12:2. S.E.E. is not a sequence to finish. It is an invitation that remains open throughout the believer’s life.

The God we want people to know

Our foundation confesses the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit—the one true God, eternally existing in three persons. Jesus Christ reveals the Father and reconciles us to God. The Holy Spirit glorifies Christ, convicts, teaches, and guides believers into truth.

Read John 14:6–17, John 16:13–15, and Ephesians 1:3–14. Our responsibility is to present Christ faithfully, teach His Word, invite prayer and reflection, and give people room to respond.

Stewardship and intentionality

The founder understands the gifts, vision, and opportunity as a stewardship before God. That conviction increases the responsibility to develop, document, manage, protect, and faithfully carry out the work without making the founder its center.

We intend to welcome the lost and the found: those seeking reconciliation, those returning, those with questions, and those continuing to grow. God is worth knowing, not merely knowing about.

“Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.” — 1 Corinthians 4:2, KJV.

Our declaration

SEEK — Come seeking God, His kingdom, His righteousness, and His truth.

ENCOUNTER — Come to know Jesus Christ and continually respond through faith, repentance, worship, surrender, and obedience.

EXPLORE — Come grow in the knowledge of His Word, His character, His purpose, and the life we are called to live in Christ.

Come and see. Taste and see. Seek first the kingdom. Above the work, God and His Word.

Seek: the invitation

Read John 1:35–39. Jesus asks what the disciples seek, and invites them to come and see. Seeking begins with turning attention toward God Himself rather than treating Him only as a source of relief or advantage.

Jeremiah 29:13 belongs to a message addressed to exiles; it should be read with the surrounding chapter, not detached into a promise that every immediate desire will be fulfilled. Matthew 6:33 places the kingdom of God and His righteousness first.

Bring honest questions: Who do I believe God is? What am I seeking? What would it mean to seek Him rather than only what He can provide? Open the text, read its setting and begin in your own words.

Encounter: the response

John 4:23–24 centers worship on the Father, in spirit and in truth. The conversation with the Samaritan woman should be read as a whole. An encounter is not something a website can manufacture through music, design, animation or a scripted prayer.

The Gospel centers on Jesus Christ, His death and resurrection, grace, repentance and faith. Read John 3:16–17, Romans 10:9–10 and the wider passages in which they appear. Visitors may seek understanding, come to know Christ, return to Him, draw nearer or continue in Him.

A suggested prayer can help someone speak honestly; repeating words is not a mechanical guarantee of salvation. No response is collected as proof of spiritual standing, and purchasing is never a condition of belonging.

Explore: the walk

Read Colossians 2:6–7 with its surrounding teaching. Receiving Christ leads into continuing life in Him, rooted and established in faith. Exploration serves growth in knowledge, discernment and obedience rather than endless content consumption.

The Five Cs organize study around Created, Chosen, Called, Consecrated and Commissioned. Genesis 1 speaks to humanity created in God’s image; Ephesians 1 describes choosing and belonging in Christ. Those ideas should not be collapsed into the same claim.

Continue through The Well, Presence, discipleship, fellowship and service. Study completion, journal use and membership milestones support continuity; none measures a person’s faithfulness before God.

Freedom, access and responsibility

S.E.E. is an ongoing ministry framework, not a biblical acronym or compulsory sequence. A returning believer does not need to repeat an entrance experience before reading a study, reviewing an order or visiting a shared page.

The main website opens with the invitation. Direct links lead to their intended destination. Reading Scripture, prayer and salvation resources remain open without a purchase, membership or completed lesson.

The 4•2•6 rhythm can support stillness when wanted, but meeting God requires no breathing technique. Keep the Word foundational, the response voluntary and the work accountable.