Who Am I and What Am I Doing with My Life?

To live in the modern world is to be faced with endless possibilities: to be steeped in ready-made answers to the question, ‘Who am I?’ This book takes up many of the central questions which all of us face in forming an identity and reframes them by placing Christ at the center. With remarkable warmth, wisdom, and generosity, Justin Poythress encourages readers to embrace a fullness of identity and purpose: a fullness unique to each person, yet one reflecting the fullness of the one who called each of us into being. | Who Am I and What Am I Doing with My Life? is a steady and trustworthy revealing of God’s answer to the question aglow within each one of us: Who am I? It is deeply wise and pervasively insightful. I will be using this book in my life and ministry. | There are few matters more important to young adults than establishing their identity. Yet, in today’s culture and climate, there are few matters that are more confusing. Justin Poythress’s book will help readers find stability and purpose, not in custom-crafting an identity from the myriad of options available to them but by grounding it firmly and faithfully in the Lord Jesus Christ. This book will prove a trusted guide to anyone who is wrestling through who they are and who God has made them to be. | Engaging, accessible, and biblically faithful. Justin has a pastoral heart and a rooted sense of the real spiritual issues we encounter with our identity. In a culture drowning in expressivism, this book is a life raft. We will only ever know ourselves as we come to know and love Jesus, whose Spirit transforms us into the most beautiful version of ourselves. May this book be a welcome call to daily put on your Jesus-self and put off your sinful self. The more you apply that biblical counsel, the more you will find peace in being yourself: a self for whom God has great purposes and plans. | Justin Poythress extends a warm invitation to the transforming freedom of immersing ourselves in our master identity in Christ. Gift this title to your favorite aimless twenty-something—but only after you sneak a read yourself. | Justin Poythress is careful in his thinking and full of care for the reader—truthful and gentle and biblical. He deals forthrightly with the felt questions of identity, addressing those matters that weigh on people’s hearts and minds, and he does so by constantly turning the reader’s attention to biblical truths and invitations. At times this book is uncomfortable because of how it presses against our desires and inclinations, but it consistently moves the reader toward formation by Christ and identity in him. This book will strengthen and help any reader who approaches it in humility and good faith. | Justin Poythress biblically tackles what our culture seems to be continually obsessed with—identity. He has written a gospel antidote to the poisonous cultural fascination of searching inside yourself to discover your true identity. This book will be enormously helpful to any follower of Christ who wrestles with important questions about who they are and what in the world they’re supposed to be doing. | Justin has given us a valuable contribution to the literature on finding your identity in Jesus. He explains, in simple terms, the philosophies and narratives of the past and present while subjecting them to a biblical analysis, and then goes on to offer a good framework for a pathway forward. | Justin’s goal is to restore rest and wonder to the worn-out. He grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia, where he got his M.Div and D.Min at Westminster Theological Seminary. He has lived and worked in Nashville, Indianapolis, Fort Myers and Boise, where he currently pastors and lives with his wife, Liz, and their two daughters. Besides writing, his pastimes include finding fresh hope for the Dallas Cowboys, brunching with Liz and listening to books on audio (especially fantasy and classic literature), and he loves anything with peanut butter, character-driven sitcoms and travelingtravelling. You can find more of Justin’s writing at justinpoythress.com.