Labels

Hey all.

I am a Puritan, Reformed Baptist, Calvinist, Spurgeonite, Rylian, Piperette, Edwardsian, Carsonite, Framer, Grudemite, Bostonian, Elliotist, Watsonian, Blanchardite, Credobaptist, Sproulite, MacArthurite, Schaefferan, Lewisian, Augustinian, Pinkite. I'm sure there's more, too. I could throw "Challiesan" in there as well, since I agree with pretty much everything he writes.

I am all of these.

But I am none of these, and I hate these labels.

I hate them because they only show a part. More and more I find myself avoiding labels and denominations. Because I do not want to be known as "that girl who followed the teachings of Calvin", etc.

I want to be known as that girl who followed Christ.

I enjoy the works of all those authors I listed above, but they are not my focus.

1 Corinthians 3:5 "What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each."

1 Corinthians 3:6-7 "I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth."

Their words mean something to me only insofar as they point to the Truth.

So, I am all of those things. But I am none of them. I do not want to be known as anything in that list. I want to be known as a Christian, one who has heard about Him and was taught in Him. One that follows Christ, not any man or woman who proclaims Christ, even if their proclamation is right. Christ is the Truth, and He is the one I follow. May it be, Lord!

Ephesians 4:20-21 "But that is not the way you learned Christ!— assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus..."