Acts 11:26, What it Means to be Christian

And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.

//I’d like to refer you back to a post I wrote a while ago about what it means to me to be a Christian. SeeActs 11:26, I am a Christian. I was writing in current-day terms, of course, so let me now back up and discuss exactly what it meant to take the title of Christian in the first century.

The word “Christ” is simply another word for Messiah. Yes, I know, we toss the title around like it’s some sort of surname: “Jesus Christ.” But it’...