Acts 11:25-26 “Then Barnabas departed for Tarsus to seek Saul. (26) And when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. So, it was that for a whole year they assembled with the church and taught a great many people. And the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.”
Because of his understanding of the mystery of Christ in us, Paul taught that truth in all the churches. And so as revealed in the above quoted passage of scripture, it was as a result of Paul teaching that mystery in the church at Antioch, that the believers there became known as Christians for the very first time. The reason those believers became to be known as Christians was because they understood that it was no longer they who were living, but that rather since they had been baptized (fully immersed) into Christ that it was in fact Christ who was living in and through them. For that is what the term Christian means, it means “little Christ”.
Michael E.B. Maher
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