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Your identity in Christ
The teen tentatively raised his hand to my question. He was the only one who did.
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I was talking to the student body and faculty of a Christian high school. The young man was responding to my question, “Who sees themselves more as a saint than a sinner?”
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I have asked this to many groups of Christians throughout the United States. Virtually every time, the vast majority identified themselves more as sinners. We are talking thousands of Christians from diverse backgrounds, crossing all ages.
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I get why people think that. Each day we sin. And the more we are in God’s Word, the more sins we see. Its light illuminates all the nooks and crannies of our lives and hearts. It reveals disgusting sins: selfish ambitions, obnoxious greed, lustful thoughts, just to name a few. We see so much sin in ourselves that we naturally conclude we are sinners.
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But is that what we should consider our identity?
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As part of your question, you mentioned a social media post you saw that said we are wasting the natural, nutritious food God has given us and trading it for protein shakes; sugary, processed food; and energy drinks. This might make you question your . . .
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Kids approach summer very differently than parents do. For kids, summer symbolizes freedom, laziness, lack of structure, and all the best vices—staying up late, sleeping in, and consuming a ridiculous amount of popsicles and ice cream cones. Parents, on the . . .
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It was an unlikely marriage. He was 41 years old; she was 26. He had been excommunicated by the Roman Catholic Church, and she had run away from a convent. The marriage of Martin Luther and Katherine von Bora surprised more than a . . .
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