The Bible calls God's people
Christians, priests, children, disciples, saints or brethren (Acts 11:26; Rev.
1:6; Gal. 3:26; Col. 1:1, 2). Christians are taught to do all in the name
(by the authority) of Jesus rather than by the authority of the Pope, Joseph
Smith, Martin Luther, John Calvin, Mary Baker Eddy, or any other man or woman
(Col. 3:17). Therefore, God's people are not called Adventists, Amish,
Anglicans, Apostolic, Baptist, Buddhist, Catholics, Congregationalist, Deist,
Episcopalians, Holiness, Jehovah Witnesses, Jews, Lutherans, Masons, Mennonites,
Methodist, Moonies, Moravians, Mormons, Moslems, Muslims, Nazarenes, Orthodox,
Pentecostals, Presbyterians, Protestants, Quakers, Reformed, Unitarians, Universalists, etc.
The above human man-made names keep the
religious world divided. "Christian" is the new name given by God (Isa.
62:2; Acts 4:10-12; Acts 26:28; 1 Pet. 4:16). Believers must be willing to discard
all human religious names and wear the name "Christian" only...for the name you
wear tells who you belong to (1 Cor. 3:3-9)!