Today I have been reflecting on what I have learned about identity. Every on searching for it. Everyone longs to have identity in something. This is why so many people join clubs, or are a part of an organization. They long to be able to identify who we are.
When I look at an older generation, I see that a lot of what they know of who they are is changing. There bodies are not working the way they used to. Our culture does not uphold a value of the elderly. It seems that every day they loose a little more of who they are. Therefore, when it comes to the church, subconsciously or consciously, they do not want anything to change. They are clinging to the identity the have in the church. For many people this could feel like all they have left.
It is important as leaders to help others find their identity in Christ and nothing more. If we invest our identity in a building, a religion, or a human being, we are setting ourselves up to fall away from that understood identity. Jesus Christ is the only thing that is unwavering. Our hope in God sustains us for eternity. This world and everything in it is passing away. Let us not put our identity stock in what will not last forever.
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