Identity Politics: Who Are You?

July 12, 2026 - August 30, 2026

We are offered more choices than ever before about how to narrate our own unique identities. But when our loyalty to human distinctions outstrips our fidelity to God’s own narration of who we are, we fight and bite and isolate and fragment. What if the church’s role is to reassert our identity in Christ, the identity given us at bapAsm and carried with us in the weekly celebration of communion?

Paul’s letter to the Galatian church asks a big question: “Who are you, Galatians?” He’s outraged at their willingness to compromise God’s grace to please Jewish-Christians who would have them convert to Judaism (i.e. be circumcised) to satisfy a theologically misguided requirement of maximal conformity. And while he does address the big question of Galatian identity directly, he does it by probing the identities of non-Galatians: himself, Peter, Abraham, and Sarah and Hagar. We’ve added questions about the role of the Spirit and the community, too, as ways Paul talks about our identity formation in Christ.

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