Who Are You?
Last week I preached on identity.
The question of self identity is one of the key questions we need to answer in order to have a meaningful life.
When asked "who are you"?, most of us respond either vocationally or relationally.
Vocationally - I am a pastor, doctor, home-maker, etc.
Relationally - I am a Ninan - I am so and so's child, father, etc.
We now live in a time where gender and racial identity seems to be becoming more and more fluid.
In my sermon, I addressed that if we follow Christ, our identity gets re-defined in terms of our relationship with Christ. As followers of Christ, we are adopted into the family of God.
Thus, our primary identity is that as a child of God. A Christian is someone who has God as their father.
This understanding is incredibly transformational. We lose insecurity and fear as we enter into the truth of this reality.
Our attempts to secure self esteem through peer or societal approval, proves moot.
We are also liberated from basing our identity our performance - complete and total freedom.
The Christian becomes emancipated from the crazy making superficiality of our age, and finds him/herself at rest in the loving embrace of the Heavenly Father.
The question of self identity is one of the key questions we need to answer in order to have a meaningful life.
When asked "who are you"?, most of us respond either vocationally or relationally.
Vocationally - I am a pastor, doctor, home-maker, etc.
Relationally - I am a Ninan - I am so and so's child, father, etc.
We now live in a time where gender and racial identity seems to be becoming more and more fluid.
In my sermon, I addressed that if we follow Christ, our identity gets re-defined in terms of our relationship with Christ. As followers of Christ, we are adopted into the family of God.
Thus, our primary identity is that as a child of God. A Christian is someone who has God as their father.
This understanding is incredibly transformational. We lose insecurity and fear as we enter into the truth of this reality.
Our attempts to secure self esteem through peer or societal approval, proves moot.
We are also liberated from basing our identity our performance - complete and total freedom.
The Christian becomes emancipated from the crazy making superficiality of our age, and finds him/herself at rest in the loving embrace of the Heavenly Father.
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