In this video from the Defined Bible study, Priscilla Shirer tells the story of how she found her identity in Christ and made her faith her own.
Why does identity matter? It matters because Jesus’ life and ministry showed that knowing our God-given identity is a priority for each of us. Inspired by the Kendrick brothers’ new movie OVERCOMER, comes Defined, an exciting new resource about discovering your God-given identity and embracing the wonder of who you were created to be.
Learn more about the Defined:How God Has Defined You Bible study by Alex and Stephen Kendrick.
The entire video is above, and the complete transcript is below.
I was probably in college when I really began to understand and internalize and probably really digest what it meant to have my identity rooted in Christ.
And the reason why that is is because I just grew up in a great family, a strong family, a church-life kind of family. You know, kind of ingrained in my whole world. I have great parents and great siblings. And we were taught the Scriptures.
I knew what the Word of God said about me, but it wasn’t until I was sort of out of that protective bubble and I was around people who were saying different things, who had different ideologies and philosophies and values and morals, that I had to make my own choices about whether or not I was gonna live in accordance with what other people thought who I should be and the labels that they were placing on me, the freedoms that they thought I should have that made sense to them coming from their worldview and their frame of reference. Or whether or not I was gonna let the freedoms and the boundaries and the identity and the value and the morals that God says about me, whether I was gonna let that actually frame my perspective, frame my thinking, and govern my behavior.
And so I started making those choices with a lot of bumbles and a lot of stumbles and a lot of missteps.
The identity of Christ became ingrained in my own reality. I realized that God doesn’t have grandkids. That you’re either His child on your own, not riding the coattails of anybody else, or not.
And so I was already a Christian, but being a Christ-follower became my rooted identity when I was at that stage in my life. And I’m grateful because it’s carried me ever sense.
