{"id":5894,"date":"2017-05-14T15:08:03","date_gmt":"2017-05-14T19:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/?post_type=message&#038;p=5894"},"modified":"2017-05-15T15:09:34","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T19:09:34","slug":"lose-to-find","status":"publish","type":"message","link":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/message\/lose-to-find","title":{"rendered":"Lose to Find"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you answer the question, \u201cWho am I?\u201d For many of you, you\u2019ve tied your identity to your name, \u201cI\u2019m John or I\u2019m Susie.\u201d Others might say, \u201cI\u2019m a father or mother, or I\u2019m a husband or a wife, I\u2019m a son or daughter, I\u2019m a teacher, I\u2019m a nurse, I\u2019m a coach, I\u2019m a dog-lover or cat-lover. How do you answer the question? In Tim Keller\u2019s book, Making Sense of God, he describes two ways that people have found their identity. One, he calls the \u201ctraditional path,\u201d where the individual finds identity from the community in which they are born and grow up. The second path, Keller calls the \u201cmodern\u201d or \u201csecular\u201d approach. This is the new emphasis on looking \u201cinward\u201d to find the true self, where one\u2019s desires and dreams are to dictate one\u2019s identity.<\/p>\n<p>In the gospel of Matthew, Jesus told His followers that they must lose their former sense of self in order to find their true identity in Christ. The only way that we can discover our true, God-given identity is by losing our former one and finding our true identity in Christ. How can we find our true identity in Christ? The text gives three steps to finding your true identity in Christ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5893,"template":"","tags":[2459],"series":[2458],"scripture-book":[1307],"scripture-chapter":[1349],"speaker":[2007],"class_list":["post-5894","message","type-message","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-identity","series-paradox","scripture-book-matthew","scripture-chapter-1349","speaker-gary-combs"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message\/5894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/message"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message\/5894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5894"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=5894"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-book?post=5894"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-chapter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-chapter?post=5894"},{"taxonomy":"speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker?post=5894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}