Identity Before Art
Identity Before Art
Before you sort out the business, the audience, or the storefront, there is a deeper question to ask yourself:
Who are you becoming?
Identity Before Art is a faith-based guide for Christian creatives who want to build from a healthy foundation. It challenges the pressure to chase visibility, success, branding, and growth before understanding who you are in Christ and why God gave you the desire to create.
This ebook explores identity, calling, discipline, healing, stewardship, and the relationship between faith and creativity. It is written for photographers, artists, writers, musicians, filmmakers, entrepreneurs, and anyone who feels called to create but does not want their work to become their identity.
During our time together in this book, you will be encouraged to:
• Root your identity in Christ before your craft
• Understand the difference between calling and ambition
• Create from obedience instead of comparison
• Build discipline without losing your dependence on God
• View art, business, and creativity as stewardship
• Stop measuring your worth by attention, sales, or recognition
• Become the person God is forming before trying to build upon the calling He placed in your heart
This is not a guide to becoming famous, because I am not famous. It is a guide to becoming faithful, not because I am always successful at that either, but because I know how much it would have mattered to have something like this when I felt I was not worth saving. I would want something to point out that although I feel so far from God sometimes, He never fails to meet me in the details. He would love to meet you there too!