You Say: Commissioned pt5 - Audio
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So some of us are super gregarious, outgoing people, and you love to just roll into a room and get to know everybody. And that's your thing, it's effortless. So for example, Hannah Reese seemed to be wed to Ryan Gates, which is awesome. Hannah, her dad, is James Reese, who was at this church for many years, they moved to Texas. But one of the things that blew my mind about James is that it doesn't matter who you are, it doesn't matter, he just walks up to you and starts talking to you, and it's just like the easiest thing in the world for him. He becomes everyone's friend in like 14 seconds. And pretty soon he's telling you about conspiracy theories, and you're like, "Whoa, whoa, whoa, slow down." So minus the conspiracy theory is Hannah has the same gift. She's more laid back like her mom, but she still, she just rolls in, it's like within 14 seconds. So man, Hannah's the best person ever, you're like, "Wow, how did that even happen?" So for Hannah, and for her father, getting to know people isn't that difficult. For the rest of us, we have like a sort of a tactic that we've developed over the years. And what we do is when we meet somebody, we get the name, da, da, da, da, da, and then we go straight to, what do you do, right? That's the first thing you say, "What do you do?" And so if it's a young person, it's like, "Well, what grade are you in? What are you studying? What do you like school?" As soon as you're, I mean, I guess now, maybe in their 30s, you can start talking about a job and say, "Hey, you look like you might be employed. What is it that you do? What do you do?" And for ladies, it's, "Hey, do you have kids? Do you stay home? Do you work? Part-time, full-time." Right? But what it is is we make the assumption and all of us kind of feel this way that our part of our identity is bound up with, it's connected to what we do. And it doesn't necessarily have to be a job, because some people, you ask them what they do and they're like, "I don't really want to talk about it because I hate it." You know, in fact, what I'm interested in, and then they go to the stuff that they think actually matters. Right? But it's still something that they're doing. It's what gives life, you know, purpose, direction, meaning, those types of things. And so it becomes very closely connected to who we think we are as people. Now we're continuing a series called You Say We've Been Talking About Identity. And so the first week we discovered that in Scripture, identity is tied 100%. The core of identity, primary identity, is being a child of God. It's knowing God is Father. We talked about how you do that, that's through faith and through nothing else. But then last week we saw that there's more to our identity than just being a child of God.
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We're continuing our You Say series with a look at how our work contributes to our identity and how Scripture offers a different way.