Family Picture from Easter 2011

This is outside Heritage Christian Fellowship where my oldest son attends with my brother T and his family. Left to right is Pamela (42), Derek (10), Chris (43), Tyson (15), and Megan (13).

What are you?

Do you ever get this question?

I was at the mall the other day sharing with someone. (A friend and I venture to the mall on Wednesday nights to strike up spiritual conversations with people.) We asked him what church he went to and then he goes, "What are you?" And suddenly I found myself wondering how I was going to answer that question besides the sarcastic "human" response.

25 years ago I would have said, "Christian." But, can I really say "Christian" these days when the LDS church is currently on a drive to align themselves with the label, "Christian." So, if it's not Christian then it seems to be a myriad of titles like

• Follower of Christ
• Disciple of Christ
• Orthodox Christian (though I don't what that means)
• Fundamentalist (yet I remember my college Baylor had a lot of problems with fundamentalists)
• Baptist (this rarely works because now it sounds like I'm siding with a particular religious group)

I guess in our "have it your way" world that's what has become of a single question. I don't care, I'm saying, "Christian."