Phase I · Recruit · Day 3 of 31 · Recruit

Know Your Identity

In Christ, not in failure, achievement, addiction, shame, or the past.

Scripture

2 Corinthians 5:17

“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.”

Briefing

5–10 minute teaching

Identity is not a mood. It is a location: in Christ. Paul does not say you feel new. He says you are a new creation. The old has passed away — not because you buried it well, but because you died with Christ and were raised with Him. Shame wants to keep the old name on the door. Achievement wants to earn a better one. The gospel gives you a name you did not invent.

Recovery language often says, “I am an addict.” There is honesty in naming a pattern. There is bondage in making the pattern your ontology. In The Armory you tell the truth about sin and the greater truth about union. You are not your worst day. You are not your best streak. You are His.

Intel

Theological / apologetics insight

The question “Who am I?” is finally answered by “Whose am I?” Baptismal identity precedes behavioral identity. Sanctification grows from union; it does not create it.

DrillWrite “in Christ” on a card. Carry it. Every time you self-narrate by failure or performance, read the card aloud.FieldworkComplete this sentence two ways — once as the old script, once as gospel: “I am the kind of person who…”

Identity drill

Two scripts

Complete the sentence twice — once as the old name, once as gospel.

Old script — I am the kind of person who…Gospel script — In Christ I am the kind of person who…

After-action report

Reflection

Which old name still feels more real than “new creation,” and why?

Prayer

Pray this, then make it yours

Jesus, I am in You. The old has passed away. Teach my feelings to catch up with the fact. I refuse the name shame keeps offering.

ChallengeWhen you introduce yourself today, notice if you lead with wound, work, or Christ. Correct it once, even silently.