Stay Salty | Who Am I?

Perhaps the defining question of our age is who am I? We are asking what it means to be human now in the age of AI, and we are all asking questions like what gives me value? What is my purpose? Why am I worthy of love, of being known? How can I help bless the world? What will make me feel fulfilled, at peace, truly happy? God thinks answering this question is incredibly important. So important that he put the answer right on page 1 of our Bibles, in the book of Genesis. The answer he gives there to us is that we are image bearers who are made to rule and reign over the world alongside him. What does it mean to reign? Perhaps a more helpful word is responsibility. We are made to exercise responsibility for ‘what we have say over’, our ‘domain.’ What we have say over includes many things, like our bodies, our time, what we think about, what we steward, our relationships, our churches, and more. But there’s a massive problem: Sin. Sin takes our responsibility from us and reigns through us when we try to domineer other people’s domains or neglect our own. Both are chronic issues among people, things that if we’re honest we do more than we’d care to admit. But God has not left us hanging. Jesus’s domain is humans themselves: to take them and make them into the kind of people who can do this, by putting their identity in him. In this timely message, Pastor Joel breaks it all down for us.