I’ve heard this before, more than once, and it always resonated with something deep inside me, but this post by a friend of mine really struck me the other day. From now on, I’m no longer a Christian, I’m a Christ-follower.
I’ve always been slightly uncomfortable with the word “Christian” because it had so many negative connotations in our culture. I am one, of course, but so many non-Christians attach so much other baggage to the word, that I’m hesitant to use it in public. So as Darryn so eloquently put it:
So much pure evil done “in the name of Jesus” has left it’s mark on a watching world’s attitudes towards Christianity…. So I am separating myself from this hypocrisy and evil.
And maybe by calling myself a Christ-follower it will be easier for me to focus on my relationship with God instead of on my own preconceptions and baggage of what Christianity is all about.
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