Life In EHO: Rejecting the label, not the message

Christians and Jesus-followers.  These are supposed to be synonymous, yet a 20-something woman with tattooed arms and pins in her lip doesn’t think so.  In last night’s Bible study she explained why she needs Christ not Christianity in her life.  After being burned by churches, she is reading the Bible for the first time.  Not only that, she is sharing God’s Word with her boyfriend and a close friend, whom she brought to the Bible study.  Holding a new Bible in her lap, she told the story of how her younger sister recently caught her reading scripture at home.  The sibling harassed her, saying, “What the ****!  Are you gonna be a Christian now?”  To this the young woman replied, “I’m not trying to be a Christian.  I want to follow God!”