What's in a name?

Heather just sent me an interesting tidbit: Apparently Jesus Christ is alive and well, and trying to get a driver's license in West Virginia.

While many of us express our faith through varying avenues, including prayers, church participation, love for our neighbors, and so on, few of us actually go so far in our imitation of Christ as to take on his name. When Jesus said "Take up your cross and follow me," I don't think he meant we should also take up his name.

By the way, if you haven't gotten geeked-out enough to study New Testament Greek, you should know that "Christ" is actually not the original Jesus' last name, but a title that means "the anointed one," or, more specifically: the king.