Dimensions is a new show we have just started running in youth and community groups. I want to give you a bit of a run down of it.

2D v 3D

2D and 3D is a perspective. A view. It’s all about how we get an idea of who we are. Our identity.

Let’s talk 2D …

If we are living with a 2D perspective we are looking around us to get our identity. We look to our mates, family, boyfriend or girlfriend even to the media to try and grasp who we are. When we do this we end up taking bits and pieces from different people and we end up with an identity that is a mash up of everyone around us. So we constantly are asking questions like am I cool enough? Am I doing, acting, saying the right thing? Am I desirable, important or meaningful?

When living in the 2D there are a couple of key quests. Among these is the quest for the label of cool and hot. To achieve these labels from other people brings acceptance, status and fulfilment. The problem is we are forever trying to obtain these labels from others, which means we no longer view others as important and valuable for who they are but only for what they can give us. We begin to see them as flat, lifeless 2D images that stand in the way of us getting what we want.

I think there is better way to live. And we call this the 3D.

In the 3D we choose to look up to God first and foremost, to understand who we are. It says in Genesis, the first book of the Bible, that humanity is created in God’s image. This means there is a God who is passionately interested in who you are. When we begin to grasp this we no longer need to strive for acceptance from those around us because we are accepted and loved by God just the way we are.

The author Alan Hirsch puts it like this:

God has already touched every person, leaving his unique fingerprints on that person’s soul.

When we begin to understand who we are and how God feels about us we start to see that the people around us are also created and loved by God, and when we love and serve others rather than use them for obtaining things such as: social status, labels of cool or hot or even wealth our lives take on a new depth, a 3-dimensional depth.

So what view consumes your life? The 2D or 3D?

And this is what Dimensions is all about. We are going into youth and community groups across SA bringing this. If you are keen to come to our next Dimensions show subscribe to our updates and you will be in the know! If you are a youth pastor and are interested in having Sacred Stone bring this to your youth group please email Matt at info@sacredstone.com

We got this concept from a book by Mark Sayers, it’s called The Vertical Self.