{"id":7079709,"date":"2026-11-13T12:39:13","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T12:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accountants4yourbusiness.co.uk\/?p=7079709"},"modified":"2026-11-13T12:39:13","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T12:39:13","slug":"johnny-became-a-christian-great-what-kind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accountants4yourbusiness.co.uk\/?p=7079709","title":{"rendered":"Johnny Became a Christian. Great. What Kind?"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Welcome to another Thursday UNFILTERED blog post, the only blog that believes the snooze button is proof that humans can lose an argument with themselves.<\/p>\n

For most of my life, when someone told me \u201cJohnny is a Christian,\u201d my brain did a happy dance. Wonderful. Johnny loves Jesus. Johnny loves God\u2019s people. All of them.<\/p>\n

Johnny is safe. I could trust Johnny with my car keys and Netflix password.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m rejoicing with the angels in heaven.<\/p>\n

By the way, \u201cJohnny\u201d represents celebrities, movie stars, athletes, musicians, famous podcasters, and people I\u2019ve known on some level.<\/p>\n

Then I spent several decades around \u201cChristians.\u201d<\/p>\n

Today, when someone says \u201cJohnny [insert name of a famous person] just became a Christian,\u201d I don\u2019t immediately celebrate.<\/p>\n

I scratch my head and ask the question almost nobody asks: What does that actually mean?<\/em><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the uncomfortable truth. \u201cChristian\u201d has become one of those words so big it\u2019s almost empty.<\/p>\n

It covers everyone from the woman who quietly feeds the homeless every Tuesday to the guy who hasn\u2019t opened a Bible in twenty years but is certain he knows that Jesus would vote Republican, Democrat, or Libertarian.<\/p>\n

Baseball comes to mind. I think this illustration will help make my point.<\/p>\n

If I tell you Johnny is a baseball fan, you\u2019ve learned roughly nothing.<\/p>\n

You\u2019d ask: \u201cWhat kind of fan? Yankees? Red Sox?\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not a minor detail. That\u2019s the whole story.<\/p>\n

Put a Yankees fan and a Red Sox fan in the same bar in October, and you\u2019ll discover fast that \u201cwe both love baseball\u201d isn\u2019t the unifying force you assumed.<\/p>\n

Same sport. Same rules. Same nine innings. And they can barely stand each other.<\/p>\n

And then, of course, some fans would say, \u201cOnly my team is legit. All other teams are frauds.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sound familiar?<\/p>\n

The label tells you which game someone is watching. It doesn\u2019t tell you how they treat the other teams or how much they really know about baseball.<\/p>\n

So I\u2019ve stopped being impressed by reports like, \u201cDid you hear? Johnny [insert celebrity, athlete, actor\/actress, newscaster, etc.] just became a Christian.\u201d<\/p>\n

Labels are cheap. And anyone can buy a jersey.<\/p>\n

What I want to know is what kind<\/em> of \u201cChristian\u201d Johnny is. Does he resemble Jesus at all? Does he love people who aren\u2019t on his team?<\/p>\n

Is he interested in reading and understanding Scripture? Is he interested in knowing the Lord in a deeper way?<\/p>\n

Does his faith make him kinder, humbler, and more honest, or just louder?<\/p>\n

And just as important, does he regard all Jesus followers who aren\u2019t part of his team (denomination or movement) with love and respect?<\/p>\n

Because in the end, that\u2019s the only kind of \u201cfan\u201d that matters to God and the angels.<\/p>\n

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