Identity Crisis

The youth group I work with just wrapped up a 10 week series called Identity Crisis.  It was a great series that drilled into how we see ourselves, how we see others/others see us, and how God sees us. 

Recap:

• God defines who we are
• The Father chose us – The Son redeemed us – the Spirit secured us
• We are Saints/Priests vs. Celebrities
• We were DEAD
• Now we are Reconciled to God (Vertical) and to man (horizontal)
• We are new creations in Christ
• We identified with Christ through baptism
• We are imitators of God
• We are identified as the Church
• There are thieves that can steal our identity (Sin, the World, the Evil One)

I enjoyed the conversation we had in our discussion group throughout the series.  The best dialog we had was around judgment and how much we all struggle with loving others as fully as we should.  It was a common struggle for all of us to resist the urge to judge others or be annoyed when people make decisions we disagree with.  We ended the series with writing down ways that we define ourselves including input from our small group members.  Here are a few of our pictures from the final evening.