ENDING the Identity Crisis: Do You KNOW HIM?

From: The African American Pulpit | Date: October 1, 2006| Author: Goods, Lisa M | Copyright information

Matthew 16:13-15, NIV

Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, "Who do people say that the Son of Man is?" And they said, "Some say John the Baptist, but others Elijah, and still others Jeremiah or one of the prophets. " He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?"

In society today one of the psychological or sociological terms we all seem to have become familiar with is identity crisis, which Webster defines as "the state of being ...

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