September 27, 2020: What Did You Call Me? – Michael Hidalgo

The writer of Acts tells us, “The disciples were called Christians first at Antioch.” Which means there was a time when they were called something else. For them, however, who they understood themselves to be was clear. They were a group of people who modeled their way, their life after the life and teachings of Jesus. And who was Jesus? The union of the Divine and human, of material and spiritual, the one who came to give life to the full. It was this life manifested in Jesus that was, for the early disciples, the foundation of their identity.

 

Today, we live in a world that is filled with all sorts of ways to identify ourselves. And it becomes easy, with each label layered on, to lose our individual identity as image bearers and collective identity as Christians - those who resemble Jesus. Perhaps we need a moment to reflect on what it means for us to understand who we are and whose we are so that we will have greater clarity on our deepest and truest identity.