I've never found those "become a fan" things that the kids click on all the time (on Facebook)...a fan of "Mom, you're not mad because I talked back, you're mad because I'm right," or "no reception," or "sweats, hoodies, and a messy bun," or "you." Won't go looking either...but it is an interesting way to claim an identity.
Claiming identity in this culture typically revolves around what car you drive, house you buy, clothes you wear, groups you join. Other cultures base identity in geography, skin color, or family/clan group. The difference, it seems, is between who you are (other cultures) and what you do (us).
Is that why it is so hard for us to live into an identity given to us by God without having to "do" something to earn it? Is that why it is so hard to understand what God has done for us to claim us as God's own? Is that why it is so easy to attempt to define and put boundaries/rules around the "appropriate" life with God when God keeps trying to get us to live in freedom and grace?
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