#youdoyou

In a pluralistic culture with numerous competing worldviews and ideologies, it is tempting to try and affirm everyone's individual lifestyle choices and philosophies so long as they don't interfere with anyone else in an attempt to maintain social cohesion. As as result, the locus of authority shifts from external to the individual to inside the individual and ideas like "you do you" begin to sound increasingly plausible.

What is the idea? "You should courageously live your truth and let others live theirs, even if that defies expectations and convention." However, this philosophy contains within it two competing ideas - the doctrine of the imago dei and moral absolutism. If we are created in the image of God, we do have unbelievable value and worth as individuals, but we are also subject then to the moral universe we were created into. As individualism and the psychologized self triumph, we increasingly want to retain the former while rejecting the latter, thereby ruining the former. This teaching will explore the ignored dark side of #youdoyou and show how we can discover our authentic self through the truth that is in Jesus.