Mark Galli on the scandal of the ‘Christian’ label
July 26, 20073 Comments
The Christian label doesn’t market very well. The managing editor of Christianity Today writes of..
…20-something Christians who refuse to identify themselves with the word Christian. They feel it comes with too much baggage and only makes their non-Christian friends think of stuffy churches, televangelists, the Crusades, and witch trials.
Read Mark’s apologia for the Christian label: Grace – That’s So Sick, posted at Christianity Today.
It would appear that a definition of “acting like a Christian” is where the debate begins.
Joshua 24:15
I have had people debate the word borned again as to old fashion. I think the evil one is trying to change our own set of words that we have known to be what they are represented in His Word. I am not going to change the way I speak of Gods word.
20 somethings realize that the term Christian has been used too much to bring people together in ways that end up being non-christian. Let’s take the “Christian Colalition” for example. Many people don’t want to be identified with the hypocrasy of Ralph Reed and his use of family values to make money. How about Tom Delay who says that he hopes that people see Jesus in his mug shot? George Bush who wears Christianity on his sleeve , yet starts a preemptive war the result of which are hundreds of thousands of innocent men, woman and children are killed or mamed for life. How about Ted Haggert, we all know that situation? If this is what people think of when they think of Christian, then I will go with the term Christ-follower, Jesus-follower, whatever.