"I Am Not."

Three words that changed everything. When they asked John the Baptist "Who are you?" — he had every reason to build himself up. Crowds following him. A message that was clearly landing. The most significant religious voice of his generation. Instead, he said: "I am not the Christ." "I am not Elijah." "No." Three times they handed him an identity. Three times he gave it back. And here's what got me…