JESUS IS OUR IDENTITY (20 OF 32)
Scripture: John 13:1-30
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Jesus Is Our Identity (20 of 32)
Series: John
Patrick Edwards
John 13:1-30
Introduction: We live today, I believe, in the midst of a massive identity crisis. For one, I think the rise of social media has brought this to the fore as we are called each and every moment of the day to be showing off online 'who we are.' Things like Facebook and Instagram encourage us to exaggerate the very best parts of ourselves while hiding the bad. On top of that, our consumerist culture is constantly demanding us to keep us with the Joneses. My point is that it's really easy to get so caught up in projecting this image of yourself that is detached from reality that you soon lose sight of who you really are.
Back in the seventies developmental psychologist Erik Erikson first coined the term 'identity crisis', defining it as a time of intensive analysis and exploration of different ways of looking at oneself. He argued this happens, of course, to children and teenagers as they seek to understand who they really are, but identity crises are not limited only to young people. Instead, life can have many moments of crises depending on one's circumstances and past decisions and behaviors. Accordingly, today, psychologists identify Four identity statuses of a person:
- Identity achievement occurs when an individual has gone through an exploration of different identities and made a commitment to one.
- Moratorium is the status of a person who is actively involved in exploring different identities but has not made a commitment.
- Foreclosure status is when a person has made a commitment without attempting identity exploration.
- Identity diffusion occurs when there is neither an identity crisis nor commitment.
Now, in order for you to truly be a confident, healthy individual, many psychologists recommend that you go through an identity exploration, that discover who you truly are at that given moment, and make a commitment to live out that particular identity. A ...
Series: John
Patrick Edwards
John 13:1-30
Introduction: We live today, I believe, in the midst of a massive identity crisis. For one, I think the rise of social media has brought this to the fore as we are called each and every moment of the day to be showing off online 'who we are.' Things like Facebook and Instagram encourage us to exaggerate the very best parts of ourselves while hiding the bad. On top of that, our consumerist culture is constantly demanding us to keep us with the Joneses. My point is that it's really easy to get so caught up in projecting this image of yourself that is detached from reality that you soon lose sight of who you really are.
Back in the seventies developmental psychologist Erik Erikson first coined the term 'identity crisis', defining it as a time of intensive analysis and exploration of different ways of looking at oneself. He argued this happens, of course, to children and teenagers as they seek to understand who they really are, but identity crises are not limited only to young people. Instead, life can have many moments of crises depending on one's circumstances and past decisions and behaviors. Accordingly, today, psychologists identify Four identity statuses of a person:
- Identity achievement occurs when an individual has gone through an exploration of different identities and made a commitment to one.
- Moratorium is the status of a person who is actively involved in exploring different identities but has not made a commitment.
- Foreclosure status is when a person has made a commitment without attempting identity exploration.
- Identity diffusion occurs when there is neither an identity crisis nor commitment.
Now, in order for you to truly be a confident, healthy individual, many psychologists recommend that you go through an identity exploration, that discover who you truly are at that given moment, and make a commitment to live out that particular identity. A ...
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