{"id":114481,"date":"2024-12-16T11:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T17:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=114481"},"modified":"2024-12-16T11:16:43","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T17:16:43","slug":"do-you-know-who-god-says-you-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=114481","title":{"rendered":"Do you know who God says you are?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This week the blog is sponsored by\u00a0Thomas Nelson Bibles<\/a> and the Life in Christ Bible. This post features a Q&A with Brian Dembowczyk, Associate Publisher of Thomas Nelson Bibles, about how our lives are shaped by the stories we believe about our identities.<\/em><\/p>\n

Brian, why does the concept of identity matter?<\/strong> <\/p>\n

Identity matters for at least two key reasons. First, understanding our identity\u2014our true God-given identity\u2014is vital to understand why we exist and what we\u2019re to do in life, as it is likewise essential for framing a fitting perspective of others. God created us as his image-bearers, unique from the rest of creation. This gives us, and everyone else, intrinsic value and points us to what we\u2019re to do in life\u2014basically to glorify God in all we do. While the specific ways we glorify God might vary for individuals, timeframes, locations, and cultures, that overarching goal is fixed for all of us. But to know how we are to do that, we need to know who we are. What we do should always come from who we are. And as Christians, we are image-bearers who have been made new in Christ. Christ not only saves<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Identity matters for at least two key reasons. First, understanding our identity\u2014our true God-given identity\u2014is vital to understand why we exist and what we\u2019re to do in life, as it is likewise essential for framing a fitting perspective of others.See AlsoA Major Drawback to Digital BiblesFree Stuff Friday \u2013 The Timeless Truths Bible (Thomas Nelson Bibles)A La Carte (2\/22)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":114493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[950],"class_list":["post-114481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tim-challies","tag-sponsored","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Life-in-Christ-Cover-1-1.jpg?fit=1919%2C1280&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114481"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114494,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114481\/revisions\/114494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/114493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}