Disciples were called the name “Christian” for the first time in Antioch. In a pagan city, their life was so different as they talked about Jesus that those pagans called them the followers of the Christ. If you and a group of your friends were picked up and dropped in Beijing, is there anything about your life, your witness, your speech, your conviction, your commitment that would lead anybody to think up a new name for you? And would your life be so centered in Jesus Christ that they might say, “These new people among us, why they are Christians. They are followers of the Christ.”? Would they say, “Listen to them talk, listen to them sing. Look at the way these people live. They are Christ-men and -women. There is no other name for them.”
