Chapter 5: An Identity Crisis

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David Kalamen

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“Until your desire to become you matches God’s desire for you to become you, you will never become who God intended you to be”

How passionate are you to see God’s purposes come to fruition in your life?

How aggressively are you pursuing the knowledge of God and His will for your life?

How desperate are you to locate that for which your life
has been called upward in Christ (Phil 3:12)?

Are you “pressing towards the goal to win the prize to which Christ Jesus is calling you upward?”

You will never see your potential maximized until there is a grabbing hold of destiny in your heart. You will never become the you God intended until you get serious about knowing Him and knowing His will. Jesus said that “the violent take the kingdom by force”

(Matt 11:12).

This violence is similar to the aggressiveness of a baby in the birth canal that is ready to start living life. You have got to mean business about serving the purposes of God in this generation, and get your priorities in line if you want to find that life that gives significance.

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Chapter 5

An Identity Crisis

1. How have the following belief systems shaped the hearts and minds of this generation? What does society’s pursuit of these systems say about the state of our generation?

  • Secular humanism
  • Evolution
  • Psychology
  • New Age
  • Witchcraft

2. When a generation rejects the existence or identity of God, it looks for a means to determine personal identity and worth. Dr. Dobson identified three major value systems operating within our culture that are defining personal worth and identity. Describe these three belief system’s penetration of society and their adoption’s impact upon a person’s self-worth:

  • outward appearance and image
  • education and intelligence
  • material worth

3. Identity is defined by what or who a person identifies with. Where is this generation instructed to find their sense of identity?

  • discuss Ephesians 1
  • comment on the affirmation of God in Psalm 139