Who are you?
I recently changed my profile pic on twitter, facebook, etc. I was surprised at the response and the feeling that came along with that. It was freeing, like the beginning of letting people know who I really I am.
After 
I really liked my old picture, it was cool…but it was too cool. I’m not really that cool. When I think of cool I think of people like Promise Tangeman, Carlos Whitaker and Daly Hake…now these are people who are truly cool. It’s just who they are. They don’t have to try, it’s at their core. I would imagine they’ve always had a coolness factor.
That’s not me. Honestly, I’d like to be that cool. But I’m not. I am fortunate enough to have enough style and confidence that I can pull off cool, I can fake it but I have to try and in the end it’s just not true to who I am.
How many times do we do that with church? Say that we’re this when at our core we’re really something different?
Here’s the problem with that: it takes too much work. We end up taking up a lot of time trying to put on that face instead of being who we really are. We have to constantly take a deep breath, suck in our gut and hope people think we’re that church.
Here’s the really good news: it’s okay to be who you really are. Not every church has to be ultra-contemporary, deeply philosophical, ________. The best thing you can be is you. God didn’t pour all of your life’s experiences, all of your unique abilities so that you could become someone else.
I encourage you to take an inventory of who you are and who you put on each day. if you’re not being true to you, start making some changes. For me that was the small step of a new twitter pic. It’s not easy and I’m catching myself all the time putting on the cool me but it feels great to have given myself permission to be real. Of course I’m still not getting rid of my sunglasses which really are cool.
In the beginning God created the earth…to be the earth.
In the beginning God created you…to be you.
