What is the Christian Identity?

What is the Christian identity? In today's cultural climate the issue of identity is being debated, with those who seek to spin an identity from their feelings, and with those who look outside of themselves for their identity. The question "What defines us?" gets to the point of contention. Do things like gender, sexual orientation, careers, sinful proclivities, or, more religiously, God, give shape to who we are? Do we look within us, or do we look to our Creator? Even Christians have been confused, sometimes using the title: "Gay Christian." How do we sift through the competing ideas of identity? In a word: we go back to God's Word. 

For more information, see: 

Strange New World: How Thinkers and Activists Redefined Identity and Sparked the Sexual Revolution by Carl Trueman 

The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution by Carl Trueman 

Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher 

About Being a Boy or a Girl: Discussing Gender and Marriage with Little Ones in Light of God’s Word by Lisa Updike 

Fearfully and Wonderfully Made by David Menton 

Are You Born Gay? (discussion)