[1000 silverlings]

You really aren't going to like this answer if you can't understand the sheep parable. There is only one flock, and you only come to it if the Father draws you, period.

The word Christian means an anointed one.

A "Christian" is an anointed one because he has received the Holy Spirit from Christ "the Anointed." Anointed by Whom? By the Father, at Jesus' baptism.

"But ye have an unction [or "anointing"] from the Holy One," that is, from Christ; and again. "the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you" (1 John 2:20, 27), for just as we read of "the Spirit descending and remaining on him" (John 1:33) so He abides with us "forever" (John 14:16).

[Dr. Eckleburg]

There is only one flock, and you only come to it if the Father draws you, period. The word Christian means an anointed one. A "Christian" is an anointed one because he has received the Holy Spirit from Christ "the Anointed."

Amen!

And a Christian receives the Holy Spirit NOT through any ritual or sprinkling of "holy water" or by the incantations of "another Christ," but by the will and design and purpose of God alone.

[MarkBsnr]

“The word Christian means an anointed one.”

No. Mashiach (Messiah) means anointed. Christian means a follower of Christ. Why is it that the self-named members of the one flock stray so much?