Some people have problems with labels. It can be overly constrictive and fail to reflect some of the factors that are dominant in that which is being described.
I understand those reservations over labels and after all in most cases we are a lot more than the labels we give ourselves and some of those labels we take so much for granted that we probably don’t even know what we’re saying when we say it.
Like using the precursor descriptive word ‘Christian’. Christian reading. Christian books. Christian music, etc.
What you think is obvious has in some cases been taken a hostage to the cultural sensibilities of the time. So for example if I said I was into Christian books some of my colleagues at work who are not professing Christians themselves would think that I’m referring to something ‘religious’ (they won’t be able to define that clearly until I put words in their mouths that they’re happy to live with cos it stops them thinking). They might think it’s referring to something that a bunch of people that meet up in specially designed buildings witter on about on Sundays. Might have something to do with that Bible and the dude in the Christmas story.
Now I’m not hurt or offended by my colleagues working from that point of reference. My concern is when the bunch of people who meet up in the specially designed building limit and restrict their understanding that I have a problem.
Think Christian from a Jesus perspective.
Building centred? Really?
Time-oriented – i.e. Sunday morning? Really? Honestly? A man who went around and then got other men to go around getting other men to go around and making Him a vital part of their every day life would want a conception of Christian to be a static as a time-based, building-centred, monologue-centred construct?
OK so what do you mean when you use the word Christian. (Oh and of course you’re not allowed to leave it to the obvious ‘Christ-like’ because the follow-up to that is what do you mean when you say ‘Christ-like’ which of course cannot end with the circular reasoning of being like Christ.)
Go on. What do you mean?
I’ll give a start on what I reckon it is in a future post.
For the time being – you tell me what you mean.
For His Name’s Sake
Shalom
dmcd
Life With CD 
Christian can only refer to people. I am a Christian, you are a Christian. An organization cannot be “Christian” nor a book store or radio station or college.
Sez me.