Oct. 16, 2022

HOW TO AVOID AN IDENTITY CRISIS

Louis & Hettie Brittz

Who Do I Think I Am?                                

1.  “We are what we have been told about ourselves. We are the sum of the messages we have received. The true messages. The false messages.” DONALD BARTHELME

DQ1:  Have you allowed “messages” you received about yourself to shape your identity?

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DQ2:  What were you told about yourself that shaped how you saw yourself? 

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DQ3:  Whose “voice” has been the strongest in your identity-forming: Your own, God’s Word or people close to you?

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2.  Which statement describes how you feel about 

      yourself:

• God has made me new

• God is making me new

• God will make me new when I go to heaven  

DQ4:  Do you feel more like a sinner in need of redemption, or like a saint who has been redeemed?

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3.  “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! That God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them.”  2 Cor 5:17 

DQ5:  What does this verse tell you about your identity?

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4.  For we are God's masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago. Eph 2:10

DQ6:  What would it take for you to feel like you are God’s “masterpiece” every day?

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5.  I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me. Gal 2:20

DQ7:  How does this verse impact your identity?

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DQ8:  What are the signs that Christ lives in you?

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6.  Do you think the enemy tries to lie to you about your identity?

DQ9:    Has he been successful?

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DQ10:  How can you stand against those lies?

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