- CHRIST-FOLLOWER
'kraɪst fɑ.loʊ.ər noun. Adherent or devotee of Christ Jesus. - 2. One who believes themself a real devotee of Christ, as opposed to other Christians.
To be fair, a lot of Christians aren’t doing the title “Christian” any favors.
There are suckers people who don’t believe. There are
And there are Christians who aren’t as bad as all that. They’re working on it. Some harder than others. But let’s
But other Christians have decided there are so many substandard Christians, the title “Christian” has simply been ruined. Same as the titles
So they call themselves Christ-followers. As in,
- SHE. “Are you Christian?”
- HE. [correcting her] “A Christ-follower.”
Not in the sense that “Christian” and “Christ-follower” are synonyms. To these people they’re not synonyms: A “Christian” is someone who claims allegiance to Jesus but doesn’t really follow him. Doesn’t really take him seriously. Not like they do.
Yep, that’s the underlying message they’re trying to give everybody: They follow Jesus, and the rest of us [sneer] “Christians,” not so much. They… well, lemme have our Lord Jesus more accurately express the way they feel.
Luke 18.11-12 KWL - 11 “Standing by himself, the [Christ-follower] prayed this: ‘God, thank you that I’m not like the other people!
- Those greedy, unrighteous cheaters—or even like this taxman.
- 13 I fast twice a week. I tithe everything I get.’ ”
Yeah, this bit comes from Jesus’s Pharisee and Taxman Story.