Identity:  Powered by God

So who are we anyway?  The question of identity is huge for all of us.  Typically, the time we focus on this the most is during adolescence, when this is the main developmental task we are involved in during those years.  Sometimes we navigate this time well and establish it well.  Sometimes we don't, and we are left to finish later the process that never quite got completed when we were younger.

One of the factors that make a huge difference when we are working through this part of our growth has to do with the people who surround us.  Not just our family, or our extended family, but the communities we are a part of.  Remember all those conversations about "peer pressure"?  That is something that reflects the power of the community that surrounds us, especially when we are forming a sense of who we are.  That is one of the reasons why "church" is so important, and church can be one of those significant communities that we are a part of, and/or surrounds us, during difficult or significant times.

We underestimate he power and significance of simply being there for each other.  This is critical for us in our growing up years - and it remains more significant than we sometimes realize as we continue to grow.  We are not simply a pile of individual organs that tend to travel together from time to time, but are the "body of Christ" - part of something much bigger that is alive and growing and interdependent if we are going to live in any kind of healthy way.

This week, Paster Genevieve explores with us what the formation of our identity is all about, and how we can be there with each other as we take that journey together - what it means to be the church.  If you would like to listen to the sermon again, or perhaps for the first time, you can access our sermon library here.  Or if you prefer the livestream version, you can access that here.