Jesus gives is identity by reidentifying life, saying death is not final, destroying death, demonstrating genuine life and eternity through the gospel. For every person whose life has been shaped by this gospel, our identity has been refocused, we are new in ways that we never knew before. In our world, identity is a tough commodity. She gave students a sheet of paper, the drew some representation of themselves, wore it around their neck on a string. At end of day, some students had little more than the string around their necks left.
World is like that.
Hard to find spiritual identity in this world, for world ridicules. Not easy to be a Christian at school. Not easy to be Christian at work. Not easy to take gospel into our sphere. Easier to lose Christian identity when alarm rings tomorrow.