Do you ever wonder what
makes you uniquely who you
are? Is it the way you look
and dress? Or maybe it’s
how smart you are and where
you work. How do you define
your
identity?
Perhaps the more revealing
question to ask is: what do
you
boast
about when you are seeking
someone’s favor? Worldly
identities are based upon
the temporal things we own
or have accomplished, the
things we think
we can boast
about before our friends and
God. The Apostle Paul, the
man hand-picked by God to be
the messenger of Christ to
the world, had many things
to boast about. Yet he
writes “All things I have
gained I count as rubbish...
I will
boast
only in the cross of our
Lord Jesus
Christ,
by which the world has been
crucified to me, and I to
the world.” At the 29th
National Youth Conference we
will explore the issues
revolving around identity,
unraveling the falsehood of
the identities of which this
world boasts, and grabbing
hold of the secure identity
we have in Christ.
Do you ever wonder if God
could still love you,
despite all the times you’ve
sinned and rejected Him?
The answer is found in our
identity in Christ.
In Galatians 2:20, St. Paul
describes the Christian
identity by saying
“I have been crucified with
Christ and I no longer live,
but Christ lives in me. The
life I live in the body, I
live by faith in the Son of
God, who loved me and gave
himself for me.”
St. Paul defines the
Christian identity as being
a partaker of the
completed work
of Jesus Christ.
Do you want an identity that
is confident and secure?...
one that can’t be shaken by
hardships or illness, nor
age or decay? Then explore
with us the everlasting
identity you have in
union
with Christ and learn to
make
Christ
and Him
crucified your only boast!
The Detroit Mar Thoma Church
prayerfully invites all
youth members of the Diocese
of North America and Europe
to attend the 29th National
Youth Conference. We pray
that this conference will
help you
Find Your Identity in Union
with Christ!
We welcome you to Detroit!
