PHBC New Members Guide

PLEASANT HILL BAPTIST CHURCH

I am a new creation (2 Corinthians 5:17)

I am reconciled to God and am a minister of

reconciliation (2 Corinthians 5:18, 19

I am a son of God and one in Christ (Galatians 4:6, 7}

I am heir of God since I am a son of God ( Galatians 4:6,7)

I am a saint (Ephesians 1:1; 1 Corinthians

1:2; Philippians 1:1; Colossians 1:2)

I am God’s workmanship-His handiwork-born anew

in Christ to do his work (Ephesians 2:10)

I am a fellow citizen with the rest of God’s family (Ephesians 2:19)

I am a prisoner of Christ (Ephesians 3:1; 4:1)

I am righteous and holy (Ephesians 4:24)

I am a citizen of heaven, seated in heaven right

now (Philippians 3:20; Ephesians 2:6)

I am hidden with Christ in God (Colossians 3:3).

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I am an expression of the life of Christ because

He is my life (Colossians 3:4)

I am chosen of God, holy and dearly loved

(Colossians 3:12; 1 Thessalonians 1:4)

I am a son of light and not of darkness (1Thessalonians 5:5)

I am a holy partaker of a heavenly calling (Hebrews 3:1)

I am a partaker of Christ; I share in His life (Hebrews 3:14)

I am one of God’s living stones, being built up in

Christ as a spiritual house (1 Peter 2:5)

I am a member of a chosen race, a royal priesthood,

holy nation, a people for God’s own possession

(1 Peter 2:9, l 0)

I am an alien and stranger to this world in

which I temporarily live (l Peter 2:11)

I am an enemy of the devil (Peter 2:11)

I am a child of God and I will resemble Christ

when he returns (1 John 3:1, 2)

I am born of Go, and the evil one-the devil-

cannot touch me (1 John 5:18)

I am not the Great “I AM” (Exodus 3:14; John

8:24, 28, 58), but by the grace of God

I am what I am (1Corinthians 15:10)

“Victory over the Darkness-Realizing the Power

of Your Identity in Christ”—Neil Anderson