And what does the BBC author mean by this quote?
Mrs Petrie, who qualified as a nurse in 1985, said she became a Christian following the death of her mother.
Isn't England a Christian country? And isn't it likely this nurse was born into the Church of England? And after seeing the vidoe, isn't it clear that Nurse Petrie is not an arab? Don't they mean to write that Mrs. Petrie converted from the Church of England to became a Baptist after the death of her mother? I have no problem with people converting from one Protestant Christian denomination to another, but let's not suggest that the Church of England (or Catholism for that matter) isn't "Christian" for indeed they are.
I find it annoying when people use the word "Christian" to mean Evangelical. Christian simply means you believe in Christ, which this nurse is and, most likely always was and which her patient also is.
Really? Where did the article do that?
Christian simply means you believe in Christ
Satan "believes", but he is scarcely a Christian.
A Christian is someone who has personally (individually) accepted Christ as his (or her) Savior, and who, as a direct result, has been born again by the grace of God. If Caroline Petrie says that she became a Christian after the death of her mother, I will take her at her word. Any previous Church membership is totally irrelevant.
To further clarify, evangelical and fundamentalist churches generally require that one already be a Christian (and then validly baptized) before being eligible for local church membership.
“Isn’t England a Christian country? And isn’t it likely this nurse was born into the Church of England? And after seeing the vidoe, isn’t it clear that Nurse Petrie is not an arab? Don’t they mean to write that Mrs. Petrie converted from the Church of England to became a Baptist after the death of her mother? I have no problem with people converting from one Protestant Christian denomination to another, but let’s not suggest that the Church of England (or Catholism for that matter) isn’t “Christian” for indeed they are.”
No country is a “Christian” country. There are countries where a majority of people are christian, or at least have been, so that the christian ethos is deeply embedded into the culture, but Christian belief is ultimately a very personal thing. Nurse Petrie may have been born into a family that “officially” is Anglican (about 60% of Britons are) but that is just a government statistic. Faith is not hereditary. This nurse may have come from a methodist background (about 8-10% of the population) or Catholic (about 10-12% of the population) or Baptist (about 3%). None of that is relevant in this case. She has chosen to be a Christian of the Baptist variety now. We are told that happened after her mother’s death. What her spiritual state was before that we do not know, nor does it actually matter (at least in the context of this scenario).