God's People Are Called Christians!
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)!
SAMUEL A. MATTHEWS
This is an excerpt from an article titled How To Be
Just A Christian.
Many thanks to Samuel A. Matthews for permission to use excerpts from his article.
For the entire article please visit the Church of Christ at Moab Utah web page by
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