These Westboro Baptist SOB's need to disappear

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"Christian": to try to be as close to living as Christ, following the teachings and implementing those teachings and beliefs in their everyday lives. To try as much as humanly possible to live as Christ lived.

offdtop, I might have to quibble a bit with this one, but I understand where you're coming from.

It's useless to "try" to live like Christ. We can't. And trying to live like Christ doesn't make us a Christian; Gandhi shared a lot of Jesus's philosophy but can't be called a Christian.

You become a Christian when you accept Christ's saving work and turn away from your sin. If you truly are one, your life will bear fruit and your life will look like Christ's. It's not about "trying", it's about "being".

And, Jesus said we were to evangelize (Matt. 28). That was my point about "evangelicals" being the same as "Christian". You aren't living up to Jesus's definition of Christianity if you aren't sharing your faith in an evangelical way.