Three Dimensional Christianity
What is a Christian? The ‘ian’ suffix attached to a word means that it is related to, or like, or belonging to. So a Christian would denote being related to, or like, or belonging to Christ. In my meditations considering this, there seem to me to be three dimensions of being a Christian. The first dimension: 1.Do you call yourself a Christian? The first level of being a Christian is whether you believe yourself to be one. It is hard to imagine the circumstance of being a Christian without first considering yourself one. A recent ABCNEWS beliefnet poll conducted in the summer of 2015 reported that: Eighty-three percent of Americans identify themselves as Christians. Most of the rest, 13 percent, have no religion. That leaves just 4 percent as adherents of all non-Christian religions combined — Jews, Muslims, Buddhists and a smattering of individual mentions. For the past 14 years, I have ministered in a local jail and I speak with easily hundreds of people each y...