2. Discovering Your Identity in Christ
Discovery 301
Discovering Your Identity in Christ

3. Introduction Knowing Our Personal Identity
Knowing and believing our identity is key to living a life in fullness.
No two people have exactly the same identity.

4. Where our identity comes from
There are two kingdoms, and people belong to one or the other:
The kingdom of this world
The kingdom of God

5. Where our identity comes from
Common Questions:
Why am I here?
What is my purpose?
What will I do with my life?
What is important to me? How do I decide my priorities?
What do I love to do: What gives me a sense of satisfaction?

6. Where our identity comes from
This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun! 2 Corinthians 5:17 (NLT)

7. Where our identity comes from
God has a purpose for each of us and a plan for our life.
You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it. You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in the dark of the womb. You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed. Psalm 139: (NLT)

8. Where our identity comes from
Our Three Greatest Needs
To be forgiven for things we had done in our past
To be set free from who you were
To become a new person

9. Becoming who you are
If we have been made new, why do we sometimes struggle with old things?
When we are born again, we are born with a new nature. However, as new believers we are infants in Christ, and must grow up into who we are.
Growing up into spiritual maturity will take place over our lifetime, through the renewing of our minds. The more we experience it, the more it becomes our new normal.

10. Becoming who you are
If indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him as the truth is in Jesus: that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness. Ephesians 4: (NKJV)

11. Becoming who you are You in Christ and Christ in You
“Us in Christ” signifies the commonness of who we are as believers.
“Christ in Us” signifies the ongoing work of empowering and enabling us to fully become who He made us to be.
“Christ in Us” signifies the uniqueness of who we are individually and where we are in our faith journey.

12. Becoming who you are Our Common Identity
Since we are all in Christ, being in Christ gives us the same identity.
Your Unique Identity
By God’s design, your uniqueness is meant to be lived out in the context of community.

13. Becoming who you are
Knowing Your Common Identity and Discovering Your Unique Identity
Knowing and believing what God’s word says about us and our identity in Christ empowers us to say no to temptation and to make choices that are life-giving.
Discovering your unique identity is a progressive process that occurs over your lifetime, making the Christian life one of adventure, joy, and fulfillment.

14. Next steps
If you decide to take Growth Track 401, you are taking a step
To learn more about yourself
To make a difference in other peoples’ lives