Who Do You Think You Are?
Finding Your True Identity in Christ
- Christian Living
- Publisher: Nelson Books (Thomas Nelson)
- Published: 2017
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Publisher's Description
Pastor Mark Driscoll answers the one question you need to ask: Who am I in Christ? Being a Christian can be like driving in a foreign city. You try living on the straight and narrow but instead take a wrong turn onto the wide avenue of sin and temptation. In the process, you become discouraged and condemned, limping along in your faith—or giving up altogether. But this isn’t the real Christian life. You can make a U-turn. Pastor Mark Driscoll knows that underlying our struggles in life is the issue of our identity. “The fundamental problem we have in this world,” he says, “is that we don’t understand who we truly are—children of God made in his image—and define ourselves by any number of things other than Jesus. Only by knowing our false identity apart from Christ in comparison to our true identity in him can we finally deal with and overcome the issues in our lives.” Who are you in Christ? Among other things: You are a saint You are blessed You are saved You are afflicted You are heard You aren’t what’s been done to you but what Jesus has done for you. You aren’t what you do but what Jesus has done. What you do doesn’t determine who you are. Rather, who you are in Christ determines what you do. These are fundamental truths that Pastor Mark explores in depth throughout Who Do You Think You Are? Finding Your True Identity in Christ.
Endorsements (16)
“PRAISE FOR WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? “The key to understanding your true identity is shaped by your relationship with Jesus Christ. ‘In Christ’ you are completely acceptable, extremely valuable, eternally loved, totally forgiven, and fully capable. Pick up a copy of Who Do You Think You Are? and learn the truth about who you really are.”
“‘Who do you think you are?’ is a far-reaching, belief-revealing, life-shaping, and identity-forming question. My friend Mark Driscoll is an exciting new voice speaking to a newly minted generation of men and women who are hungry for spiritual truth today. Who Do You Think You Are? brings us insights from ancient history that speak to us powerfully today. Mark unpacks truth that every believer, young and old, needs to know. I highly recommend this book to you.”
“There are a few things that stir affections, intensify worship, and change the way we interact with God and others like understanding our identity in Christ. Almost all that robs us of vitality in life and faith is a fundamental misunderstanding about who we are in Christ. Mark Driscoll continues to write books that are not only extremely well written but are also needed in our day and age.”
“So many people stumble through life desperately trying to fit in, never knowing who they are or what God wants them to do. Mark Driscoll’s book will empower you to stop living for people’s approval and start living from God’s truth. This book will give you an unshakeable, biblical understanding of who you are in Christ. When you know who you are, you’ll know what to do.”
“This book hits very close to home for me. I spent years in ministry for Christ without understanding my identity in Christ. I know now that I was not alone. When we place our identity in anything but our relationship with Jesus, we have built our future on a platform that could crumble at any moment. When, by the grace of God, we understand who we are in Christ, everything else can crumble and we will still be standing. I highly commend this book to you.”
“Mark has an uncanny gift of communicating very complex truths in an extremely accessable way. In a world filled with authentic identity replacements; Mark seeks to show how being transformed by Jesus is true transformation. However, it also will help you to know the one who gives new identity. Transformation without a relationship is to be an orphan. Yet transformation with relationship creates the deepest sense of meaning possible. That is why Who Do You Think You Are? is a helpful tool to bring clarity to the point of identity.”
“Finally someone has given the foundational and transformational subject of gospel identity the thorough treatment it needs. Jesus didn’t just forgive your sins, he also gave you a brand new, life-altering identity. Sadly, many believers in Jesus Christ continue to frantically look horizontally for what they have already been given vertically in Jesus. In this very helpful book, Mark powerfully addresses both our identity idolatry and our identity amnesia. I am very thankful for this book, and soon you will be too.”
“Mark Driscoll is a gifted teacher able to make complicated spiritual truths easy to understand and applicable in our lives. In Who Do You Think You Are?, you will be transformed by the truth that we are made in the image of God, and made new in Christ. This isn’t just an abstract theory to think about—it’s a practical reality to live by.”
“Mark Driscoll makes a compelling case that properly understanding who we are in Christ is the key to living out our calling in Christ. When our self-talk and self-image are based primarily on what we’ve done and what others think of us, we inevitably end up with a skewed and bogus image. This book will help you realign your self-talk and self-image with the truth of God’s Word, so that the next time you look in the mirror you’ll see the same person Jesus sees.”
“I am very pleased with Mark Driscoll’s latest book, Who Do You Think You Are? Normally that question makes me start guiltily, but in this case Driscoll is simply unpacking the ground of every believer’s identity from the book of Ephesians. Many people will be enormously helped by this book.”
“For those who feel the acute pressure of thinking you have to be the best in order to be somebody, you have to win in order to count, you have to succeed in order to matter, you have to be liked in order to be valuable . . . this book is for you. My friend Mark Driscoll shows that our identity is not the sum of our achievements, and that our worth is not measured by our performance. In fresh and captivating ways, he shows how the gospel frees us from this obsessive pressure to perform, this slavish demand to ‘become,’ and how the gospel declares that in Christ ‘we already are.’”
“People are suffering from an identity crisis. It seems everywhere we turn we see people striving to become someone or something that they perceive will bring them some sort of contentment when in reality the opposite is true. In this unbelievable book, Pastor Mark Driscoll uncovers the reality that before we can discover what we are supposed to do or become in life, we must first discover who we belong to. A life wrapped up in Jesus has way more passion for things that matter and the potential to make a difference!”
“This is not a self-help book. It reminds you that your life is not about you; it’s all about Jesus. Driscoll’s latest teaches Christians that true freedom can only be found in rejoicing in who you are in Jesus. Did you know that you are a saint? What an antidote to low self esteem! Forgiven? Watch that guilt flee away! And if that’s not enough, you’ve been adopted into the best family the world has ever known! Driscoll’s pithy meditations will help these wonderful truths make the all important jump from head to heart. It might just help you more than you expected!”
“With his characteristic pastoral wisdom, Mark Driscoll offers us theologically deep and emotionally satisfying insights into our true identity in Christ. Who Do You Think You Are? exposes our false views of God and of ourselves. It opens up powerful encouragements that can change your biography into a timeless testimony about who you really are in Christ.”
“My wife and I became Christians at about the same time early in our marriage. We needed what every Christian needs: a clear understanding of who we are so that we would know how we are to live in Christ. Pastor Mark Driscoll leads readers through Ephesians to provide words to describe that identity. It’s a helpful guide for new believers as well as a useful tool for believers who need to be renewed. Who Do You Think You Are? is not only a book I will commend to my church, it’s also a book I’m giving to my kids.”
“When it comes to defining my identity, I often ‘hand the pen’ to my culture, to my peers, to my competitors, to my family, to my accomplishments, to my profession, even to the good things I do. Mark Driscoll pulls us back to the Garden, to creation, and then to Jesus in a clarion call to anchor ourselves in the ageless, changeless, and liberating reality of who we are. In doing so, the spotlight shifts off of me and onto the God who knows, loves, redeems, and restores.”
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