Undergoing a Complete Identity Shift
What happens when you become a Christian?
“When you became a Christian, you underwent a complete identity shift. Now, you are a new creation (2 Cor. 5:17); you are a child of God (Gal. 4:5); you are united to Christ (Rom. 6:1–8). Being a Christian is more fundamental to your identity than your family, your ethnicity, your profession, your nationality, your sexuality, your personality—or any other way this world defines identity. And so the unity you share with every Christian supersedes every other bond. That means that wherever gospel people exist, diversity should as well. Diversity grows naturally from the gospel.”
-- Mark Dever and Jamie Dunlop, The Compelling Community: Where God's Power Makes a Church Attractive