We are all identified by something. I mean you see those guys that love nascar with all the gear on and you know what they are all about. You see somebody with the OU car flag and you know what team that guy roots for. What about the ruff and tough guys with the Harley Davidson motorcycles that you see riding around on the weekends in these huge packs? They are definitely a different breed of cat, but you know what those guys are all about. These people all have a unique way about them, they are identified by what they love and what they believe in.
So my question is, what made people call the first believers Christians? What did the first believers do that made them so different that people wanted to differentiate them as Christians? These people were so unique, that they were being singled out from the crowd as being different. They were still Jews, their appearance didn't change they still looked like the same people they did before, but the things that they were doing and the things they were saying made them so different that people singled them out as a new tribe that was called Christians.
I will tell you why they were singled out. They were called Christians because nobody had ever seen anything like them before. They were Compassionate, Humble, Accepting, Giving, Dangerous, Risk Takers, Adventurous, Creative, Inventive, Imaginative, and Adaptable. They were nothing this world has ever seen before. They were even Persecuted, Beaten, Jailed, and all they had to do was just be quite, but they knew the calling of Jesus and who He was so they continued to be identified as Christians.
So if someone were to meet you would they know what you believe in or what your all about? I believe that Jesus has called us to be relentless in our pursuit to be identified by Him. This is my life's mission, is to be relentless in my pursuit of identification in the Jesus tribe.
Excellent post! Keep writing. You are doing great.
Posted by: Scott Berglan | August 28, 2007 at 04:46 AM