BEING IN CHRIST TO GOD'S GLORY (10 OF 44)
Scripture: Ephesians 2:1-10
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Being in Christ to God's Glory (10 of 44)
Series: The Church at Ephusus: God's Calling, Empowering, and Instruction for the Church
Patrick Edwards
Ephesians 2:1-10
Introduction
Human beings are living in the midst of an identity crisis. We are very seriously struggling to understand who we are and what our place in this world is. Though we may suppress these feelings to varying degrees, we know that there is something just not right within us and thus our lives become a quest to fix that problem, to find our identity, to determine our purpose in life. This isn't a hypothetical situation this morning; but neither is this a new crisis but one that has plagued every generation of people to walk the earth. There is nothing new under the sun; what has been will be again, what has been done will be done again. The expressions of this crisis are just more visible and more radical it would seem than ever before.
Bruce Jenner, the Olympic Gold Medalist in the Decathlon, once declared the greatest athlete in the world, began to express some time back that who he was physiologically was not who he felt he truly was inside. There was something wrong in his life and existence and what Jenner determined it to be that was wrong was his gender. Despite his anatomy, he believed he was a woman and thus he recently completed sexual reassignment to now live as a woman.
Headlines were made recently when the president of a local Washington chapter of the NAACP was revealed to actually not be an African American, despite her claims. Rachel Dolezal had changed her appearance and had been claiming to be black and it was not until her parents exposed the truth that she admitted who she really was. Now many were outraged at the deception, but many also came to Dolezal's defense saying that there is nothing wrong with a person wanting to identify with another ethnicity if that's who they truly believed they were. You see human beings are in the midst of an identity crisis a ...
Series: The Church at Ephusus: God's Calling, Empowering, and Instruction for the Church
Patrick Edwards
Ephesians 2:1-10
Introduction
Human beings are living in the midst of an identity crisis. We are very seriously struggling to understand who we are and what our place in this world is. Though we may suppress these feelings to varying degrees, we know that there is something just not right within us and thus our lives become a quest to fix that problem, to find our identity, to determine our purpose in life. This isn't a hypothetical situation this morning; but neither is this a new crisis but one that has plagued every generation of people to walk the earth. There is nothing new under the sun; what has been will be again, what has been done will be done again. The expressions of this crisis are just more visible and more radical it would seem than ever before.
Bruce Jenner, the Olympic Gold Medalist in the Decathlon, once declared the greatest athlete in the world, began to express some time back that who he was physiologically was not who he felt he truly was inside. There was something wrong in his life and existence and what Jenner determined it to be that was wrong was his gender. Despite his anatomy, he believed he was a woman and thus he recently completed sexual reassignment to now live as a woman.
Headlines were made recently when the president of a local Washington chapter of the NAACP was revealed to actually not be an African American, despite her claims. Rachel Dolezal had changed her appearance and had been claiming to be black and it was not until her parents exposed the truth that she admitted who she really was. Now many were outraged at the deception, but many also came to Dolezal's defense saying that there is nothing wrong with a person wanting to identify with another ethnicity if that's who they truly believed they were. You see human beings are in the midst of an identity crisis a ...
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