Identity - Who are we?

Team sports stories …

How do we answer that question? (as individuals only or as individuals within a group)?

The problem of our identity in our culture ....

How should we answer that question?

In Christ …

In the Body of Christ …

In the Church … the family of God … etc.

Those we love - are connected to eternally …

John 15 - Love one another … a new commandment ...

1 Peter 2:4-5,9-10 - As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.  Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

Loving one another should be part of our group identity …