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- Author: Stuart Murray
- Full Title: The Naked Anabaptist
- Category: #books
- Neo-Anabaptists identify with the Anabaptist tradition and are happy to be known as Anabaptists, but have no historic or cultural links with any Anabaptist-related denomination.
- Urban Expression is one of the main sponsors of the Crucible course.
- by recasting him as a remote, imperial figure and emphasizing his divinity much more than his humanity, the imperial church could worship and honor Jesus without needing to listen to him, imitate his example, or follow him. Jesus could be effectively marginalized without apparently being dishonored.
- Maybe we need to stop calling ourselves “Christians.” Not only is this term compromised by its associations and debased by overuse, it is also rather presumptuous. Who are we to claim that we are like Christ? If others want to refer to us in this way, because they see us as Christlike, well and good—this seems to have been how the term was first used (see Acts 11:26). But maybe we need a term that is both purposeful and restrained. Maybe we should claim no more (or less) than that we are “followers of Jesus.” As followers, we do not claim to have arrived at the destination, nor need we distinguish ourselves from others who are at different stages of the journey. Belonging, believing, and behaving can all be interpreted as aspects of following. Churches committed to following Jesus welcome fellow travelers unreservedly and unconditionally. But their ethos is one of following, learning, changing, growing, moving forward. Together, and as we reflect on the Gospels (and the rest of Scripture), we discover more of what it means to follow Jesus.