St. Aidan's Anglican Church, Kansas City - Weekly Talks

Over the summer and fall, we’ll be considering the biblical foundations for one’s new personhood, addressing a Christian’s new identity in Christ. How does being “in Christ” touch my inner self, my personhood? And who gets to narrate this identity? Christian identity goes beyond the many temporal ways of describing and knowing yourself. And I believe that we know too little about the astounding reality of our identity … it is deeply theological and experiential … Paul’s new identity is saying that within the inner life of a Christian, the Lord Jesus Christ has taken up residence, to animate and empower the inner being, the inner person, anthropos (human being). To be “in Christ” is a sharing in the inner life of God, Christ “in me” and “me in Christ.” How did Paul arrive at this understanding? A personal encounter with the risen Lord, thus providing revelation of Scripture’s Grand Narrative – Adam and Christ. Two humanities – the old and the new – from which our sense of personhood emerges. Out of