What is a Christian?

[jgredline]

I think it would be a good idea to see where the word ''Christian'' was first born...
The Bible mentions the word Christian only three times. The first use of the word was in Acts 11: 25 Then Barnabas departed for Tarsus to seek Saul. 26 And when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. So it was that for a whole year they assembled with the church and taught a great many people. And the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.

It was at this time that the jews where beginning to separate themselves from Christians...The word Christian was used in the same context as a Samaritan. It was basically a bad word...
If memory serves me right, the first secular use of the word Christian was by Nero when he accused the ''Christians'' of burning down Rome...Nero hated the Christians perhaps more than anyone through out history....So word Christian was used in a derogatory form...Same as it is used by many today like bill Maher and Michael Moore for example.

So in order to see what a Christian is, we need to start with the disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ....


Now if anyone disagrees with me so far, thats fine, but let me know what is wrong and correct me....