30 Sep Status Symbols
From culture to culture, status symbols are everywhere. From who lives where to who drives what to who carries what kind of handbag to what kind of jewelry is owned to what kind of collectible is possessed, it’s deceptively easy to turn a nice thing or a fun thing into a main thing. It’s easy to turn a good thing into our best thing, and derive our status (literally: how we are doing) from it.
Relationships are no different.
It’s easy to turn our love partner into a symbol of our status.
It’s just as easy to turn a love partner–or the lack of one, or the absence of one, or the diminishment of one, into a functioning barometer of a lack of status.
Ancient cultures did this; modern cultures do this.
Thankfully, into the center of all this mess and all these symbols, the Gospel of Jesus has something to say.
And I’d like to talk about that something.
The Gospel has a Revolutionary Idea, which says that our status, our best thing, is, yes, tied to a person–but to the perfect person who has already given us Himself and who will never leave us nor forsake us.
In light of this, there is a bright light blinking its way into view, a light that illuminates the darkness and shows us that marrieds and unmarrieds are equal in the Kingdom of God.
How does this change us?
That’s what we will be talking about at the upcoming Mosaic Singles Conference October 7-8, and if you are not married, I hope you will join us!
This is not a dating advice weekend; this is what we hope to be an energizing and affirming look at how Christian unmarrieds can live more fully into their discipleship. We will be looking at (and hopefully dismantling) some lies we can believe about ourselves, how to find fulfillment even when our expectations in life aren’t met, and how the family of God can play a meaningful role in our life’s journey.
If you aren’t married, and aren’t signed up yet…please don’t sit at home that weekend or make other plans.
Come join us! You will be glad you did.
You can register here.
I will see you there!
Morgan