{"id":7116,"date":"2019-01-29T08:16:30","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T13:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/faithlens\/?p=7116"},"modified":"2019-01-28T15:12:39","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T20:12:39","slug":"february-3-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/faithlens\/february-3-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"February 3, 2019–Who Are You?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Herb Wounded Head, Brookings SD<\/b><\/p>\n

Warm-up Question<\/b><\/p>\n

Would you consider yourself an honest person? Would you say that your friends are honest people?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Who Are You?<\/b><\/p>\n

A young man was caught using Alexa to cheat on his homework. The mother caught him using Alexa to do his math homework and posted a video<\/a> on social media to show what he was doing.\u00a0The boy simply asked Alexa, “What is 5 minus 3?” \u00a0The boy seemed unaware that he was doing anything wrong. \u00a0He was simply using a tool with which he was very familiar. \u00a0The incident raises the deeper questions of how we learn right from wrong and where we are to draw the line between cheating and simply using a new technology well.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A lot of this has to do with our sense of identity and integrity. Identity is your understanding of who you are and what you\u2019re about. Integrity is that you do what you say you\u2019re going to do. It\u2019s important for us to know who we are in order to have a sense of what\u2019s right and wrong. Usually, we are taught at a young age our sense of ethic and the difference between right and wrong.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

When we get older, we often have to re-evaluate what this sense of ethic is depending on circumstances and depending on the situation we find ourselves in. If we don\u2019t constantly evaluate our sense of right and wrong, we may do things that are unethical, even though they may seem harmless decisions, they can change our sense of identity and integrity. So we have to ask ourselves who we are and whose we are from time to time in order to enter our baptismal lives with a sense of integrity and a solid sense of identity.<\/p>\n

Discussion Questions<\/b><\/p>\n