I tell you, this was painful in that "7th grade I left my homework on my bus and didn't have time to brush my hair and my mom made me wear floods to school" kind of way. The funny thing about the issue you've clearly struck a nerve with is that it affects everyone...whether we admit it or not. Labels bind and ascribe, but there are times when a little label is necessary. If you say you are a Christian then it has to be a certain kind, or you risk alienating people. On the other hand if you don't say Christian, are you denying the largest part of your self.  I like that Blackwasp centers this problem with our individualistic society. i

I would love to get to that place where I can be who Jesus called me to be and not care if it doesn't look the way others think it should look. That is a true renewing of the mind. I think of Anne Lamott who writes about her journey with Jesus in a most unconventional way, in a way that many Bible Belt Believers would find shocking. I find it refreshing because her take is real and unfiltered; she has come to the place where she doesn't apologize for being a human.