Who am I? The search for identity

Name: Who am I? The search for identity
Start: 2024-10-23T18:30:00+10:00
End: 2024-10-23T20:30:00+10:00
Location: 1 King St, Newtown NSW 2042, Australia

Schedule

Wed Oct 23 2024 at 06:30 pm to 08:30 pm

UTC+10:00

Location

1 King St, Newtown NSW 2042, Australia | Redfern, NS

* Where?
In-person in Marcus Loane Hall, Moore Theological College, 1 King St, Newtown. Via livestream (URL supplied upon registration).
* Cost: FREE.
* About
“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.” (Romans 12:2 ESV)
Our culture is obsessed with identity: we’re often told, “You do you” and encouraged to live according to our “true and authentic self”, expressing publicly how we feel about ourselves internally.
However, the very concept of personal identity is inherently slippery. It encompasses things like ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, religion, belief, educational background, profession and personality, but it’s not fixed: it can change through time, circumstance and even self-invention.
How should Christians regard identity? God created us as unique individuals; how does our creatureliness affect who we are? Furthermore, as sinners redeemed and sanctified by the Lord Jesus and adopted into the household of God, how does Christ’s work change the way we view ourselves? How does the encouragement to “find your identity in Christ” actually play out in the complexities of competing sources of identity?
At this event, Rory Shiner, Senior Pastor of Providence City Church in Perth, will show us how losing ourselves for the sake of the kingdom will help us find ourselves once and for all (Matt 10:39).