“If that’s true,” I said to my friend, “how dangerous is it to live a life with no sense of your identity? How dangerous?” “You mean I would have an identity that leads to running a restaurant?” he asked. “Yes, yes, that’s it.” “And the restaurant would just be an extension of my identity?” “Yes. That’s right.” “I need to find my identity. Maybe I need to go to God and find my identity,” he said. No formulaic language in this conversation. No prefabricated gospel presentation. Just simple, generative conversation focused on this amazing young man and who he truly is to God. This is how Jesus
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