What Is A Christian?
I love being in a church where you get questions like this! Yesterday I received this question in response to our Becoming a Contagious Christian series. The great thing about this question is that the person did some research to find where the term came from and really had a good point to his question. I love the fact that answers are being sought and it causes all of us to reflect even more and seek the answers through the Word of God.
The term Christian was probably a derogatory term in the early church used by Gentiles to describe Jewish believers but it quickly became a common term for all people that would follow the teachings of Christ. Now that brings us to a good point. Those of us that claim to be Christians…are we really following the teachings of Christ? I believe we have really distorted the term Christian just as we have with the word Love. Do I really love tacos as much as I love my wife? Are the feelings even remotely similar? Now I really like tacos but I would be the first to admit that while I say I love them…my feelings for tacos are not even close to the feelings that I have for my wife! However, let me just say when I can have tacos that my wife has prepared and is sitting at the table with me eating the tacos…now that is love! 
I hope you get the picture here…We have so miss used the term love that it is difficult to place a real meaning with it just as we have so miss used the word Christian. I almost wish that it was derogatory again so we could see how many people would be happy to wear that label!
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