As well as the obvious giant personalities, the New Testament is full of mentions of the more 'ordinary' people - a blind beggar, a woman publicly humiliated for adultery, a disciple full of doubt, a jailer worried about his job. Ordinary people - but they mattered to God; their lives counted with him. Something in us shouts against our own relative unimportance. These studies demonstrate that each of us matters a great deal to God.