I find that the term "Christian" means too many different things to too many different people. I find that if I introduce myself that way, people pull away because it conjures up something bad. If I say I follow Jesus, or say I'm a "Jesus-follower", people from either camp often want to learn more. And isn't that really what "Christian" means originally, underneath all of the social and political and cultural assumptions that have now been heaped upon that term?