The word “Christian” is a noun. It is defined as a follower of Jesus that is doing certain things in the world. In the scriptures ‘Christian’ is a noun. It was intended to be a noun and never an adjective that you tack onto things to make them safe and acceptable. It’s not an adjective that you can attach to things so that you can uncritically consume them. The danger in branding things “Christian” is that you will lose a fundamental power that is found in the scriptures. There is a danger of branding things Christian that isn’t the truth, and not branding things that are truth as Christian. The danger is that we would then consume it without using discernment and mindlessly digest it. The danger in not labeling it, is that I would discard it as not truth. What if God was using that to speak truth to me?
My faith gets bigger the more I find truth in other things outside of the obvious things that I am religiously used to experiencing. It is a different experience to break free from the mindset that Christianity has the exclusive rights on truth. Jesus came to destroy and demolish religion that says God is only over “here”. Jesus gets angry when religious people make “man boundaries” and say God is “here” but not “there”. “I AM the truth”. I claim truth where ever I find it. Christianity isn’t a closing of the mind, but it is opening my heart and mind to how things are in ways that I never saw before. We are looking for Jesus everywhere we can find Him, and the more I find Him the bigger the faith gets.
Jesus is bigger than any religion and that includes Christianity. We are followers in the way of Jesus, not because it is the best religion, but because following Jesus is the best way to live and if not, then He is a liar. If you don’t believe that He is a liar then “all things are yours!”
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