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

Identity is a big word … it speaks of personhood, the self, one's inner being. God the Father is the one in whom we live and move and have our being, in union with the Son and the Holy Spirit. And our being, our humanity (anthropos), is known in relation to God, as creation is known by its creator. To know oneself is to return to one's origins. Who am I? That is, who is the I (Greek, ego), asking the question? How might I know and understand myself? Jesus asked his disciples, "who do you say that I am?" We discover the need for divine revelation remains. When the angel of the Lord speaks to Moses out of the burning bush, he responds to Moses’ question about the diety's identity with …" tell them I AM sent you". Identity comes from the eternal I AM,, created in the image of God. In him we live and move and have our being. Being created in the image of God, we are given personhood. Of course, this personhood is prenatal. Persons come to discover self-identity within relationship. The discovery of person