Status Updates From The Vertical Self

Therefore, if we are to rediscover who we really are, we must find the blueprint of who we are meant to be in the person of Christ. He is the new Adam, the first human. He is the image in which humanity is made. To become ourselves, we first must become more like Christ.

Therefore, if we are to rediscover who we really are, we must find the blueprint of who we are meant to be in the person of Christ. He is the new Adam, the first human. He is the image in which humanity is made. To become ourselves, we first must become more like Christ.

We don’t need to find ourselves; rather, we need to rediscover our original purpose by imitating God‘s creative endeavors in making the world a better place.

“Behind the idea of cool is a deep desire to discover or rediscover personal authenticity. Of course, the performance version of cool that we have now is almost the polar opposite of authenticity; it is about projecting a false self, creating a surface identity different from ones interior identity.”

“The elephant in the living room of contemporary Christianity is people’s ability to simply sit in church, to consume the experience, and then who dispose of it, totally unchanged at the soul level as they leave the sanctuary. Sure they might feel challenged encouraged or even moved, but the horizontal self simply “feels” the experience and moves on.” Page 51

When we don’t know who we are, we become entrapped by circumstance. The world defines us, our lives become reactive to whatever is happening around us, and we become more and more frustrated as the ups and downs of life govern us.