Pew2You
August 21, 2016
Identity
Pastor Phil Vance
Highlights:
1. We change our identity to fit with society instead of changing society to fit our identity in Christ.
2. The devil is trying to steal your God given identity.
3. If Christ lives in me then I am dead to me but alive to God.
Discussion Questions:
1. What does it mean to be counter cultural? What does it cost to be counter cultural?
2. What is a crisis of identity? What kind of things happen in life to get us to a place where we are unsure of identity?
3. When was the last time your driver’s license was updated? When was the last time you updated your identity in God? Where do we go and how do we do this? Share together how to make your identity in Christ so real that we live by it and not by any other.
Key Scriptures and Quotes and Illustrations:
– I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Galations 2:20
-See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ. For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily, and you have been filled in him, who is the head of all rule and authority.
Colossians 2:8-10 ESV
-Half of all identity theft is perpitrated by someone the victim knows.
-Selling dirt. We exchange something of value for something that is value less.
-“Faith is so individual, it’s never measured against another human being. It’s where I don’t feel vulnerable. It’s where a lot of my self worth and achievements inblife come from.” Jenny Simpson