You Are Saints

Webster defines the word “identity” simply as, “the distinguishing character or personality of an individual”. We all have an identity such that when someone talks about us, the hearer quickly recognizes the person being spoken of. You remember him, he’s 71 years old, he preaches the gospel at the Columbus Street Church of Christ, his wife’s name is Sharon, and they have three children. . .

• We’ve all heard of the “Witness Protection” program. Where a person testifies against another in a court of law and the authorities give them a new “Identity”. New name, new SS number, and often times even a new background, so that for all intense and purpose the “Old Person”, no longer exists.
• Much like what happens when one obeys the gospel. “3 Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? 4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.” (Rom. 6:3-4)

For the next few weeks our Sunday morning lessons will come from the letter Paul wrote to the saints in Ephesus. My hope is to help us, the church, to be more firmly established in the knowledge of who we are and why we are here.

I chose this letter because it was written in a way that guided the early disciples in forming and affirming their new identity in Christ.

Partly so that they would be better able to overcome the struggle with the powers of darkness, and partly so they would be better trained to do the work they were called to do as the church in Christ…