Who Is a Christian?

Thank you, Soren, for some needed cold water in the face:

"When we see someone holding an axe wrong and chopping in such a way that he hits everything but the block of firewood, we do not say, 'What a wrong way for the woodcutter to go about it,' but we say, 'That man is not a woodcutter.'"

     Now for the application. When we see thousands and thousands and millions of Christians whose lives do not resemble in the remotest way what--and this is decisive--the New Testament calls a Christian, is it not tampering with the meaning to talk as one does in no other situation and say: 'What a mediocre way, what a thoroughly inexpressive way these Christians have.' In any other situation would one not say, 'These people are not Christians.' Now be earnest about it and say: We are not Christians. Let this become ordinary language usage and you will have a world transformation."

     ~Soren Kierkegaard, in Provocations