provides a confidence that enables action. We live out of a sense of identity. It may be unexpressed or even unconscious, but it still determines us. Who are you and what made you who you are? More importantly, who should you be and how does the Christian gospel redefine who you are? Paul Ricoeur describes narrative identity—the story of who we are—as a function of permanence over time, established by self-constancy and perseverance of character.18 There is continuity over a period of time, a coherence
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