This blog post was written by David North.
There’s a lot of talk about IDENTITY these days among students. We repeat the phrase “Know who you are in Christ“ at church, but I’m not sure we’ve done a very good job of explaining what that means and why it matters.
And now we are seeing the consequences of abandoning that conversation and allowing culture to hand out new identities to students -and even new categories!
Our students need to know some things about identity. Everything, I mean everything, flows out of knowing Who God is and who he made you to be.
Identity is a big deal to God, and it should be a big deal to us. The world and our Enemy wants us to identify ourselves by our sin and struggles.
God identifies us by our purpose and our potential. Sometimes He even changes peoples name just to make the point! Abram to Abraham, Jacob to Israel, Simon to Peter, Saul to Paul and the list goes on.
At First Priority we are training students to let their friends know that God made them for a purpose-and He is prepared to give them a new life, a new identity, and a better future if they will just come to Him.
Partner with us in this identity war and let’s see what God does!
Blessings,
David North, District Director, NE Tennessee
