Dethroning Ourselves in the You Do You Era: Ep2

Season 3, episode 2: "Seeing Yourself in God's Story...not the other way around."

Friends: To be fully human is to be authentic to yourself and your inner voice above all others...That's the mantra of the You Do You Era.  But, this way of being human overpromises (that you'll be happy and whole!), and it under delivers (we end up unfulfilled).

One way we attempt to break free from the You Do You Era's hold on our lives is by seeing ourselves as characters in God's story of redemption, not the other way around.

We often see God as a key member of our story.  This is not strong enough in the You Do You Era. It still keeps me at the center of the world: My vision, my thoughts, my goals, my feelings, my identity.

We need a stronger vision for being a whole and complete human, one that helps us to see ourselves as key players in God's story (not our story), empowered by the Holy Spirit to bring about God's good, right, and just purposes for the world.

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Throughout this season, we  want to remove the cultural scales from our eyes using insight from:
Alan Noble (You are Not your Own)
Andrew Root (Ministry in the Secular Age series)
Alan Ehrenberg (Diagnosing the History of Depression in the Contemporary Age)
Charles Taylor (A Secular Age)
Andy Crouch (The Tech-Wise Family)
Leonard Sax (The Collapse of Parenting)
All of Jean Twenge's (SDSU) recent interviews / articles / and her books
James K.A. Smith's books and articles
N.T. Wright (The Day the Revolution Began among others)
Alasdair MacIntyre (After Virtue)
 The New and Old Testaments... plus other works that we sprinkle throughout. 

[The views presented are those of the speaker or author and do not necessarily represent the views of DoD or its components.]