…I said there was something unpleasant and disturbing about the letter X as a label for my generation - and I still think so. It sounds like ‘Brand X’ - like a blankness or negation. You draw an X over something you want to eliminate. There is nothing attractive in being labelled an ‘Xer’, a faceless member of ‘Generation X’. Though I’ve used such labels throughout… for the sake of clarity and convenience, I have hated to do so. I think ‘Generation X’ is an ugly label. I don’t like being tagged an ‘Xer’.

But you can call me an ‘Xian’ if you want. Paint a big red X on my back. That’s fine with me. I will wear the X of Christ proudly. Jesus Christ has redeemed an ugly letter - a symbol of negation and annihilation - and has turned it into something beautiful. With the most evil intent imaginable, the system tried to negate and annihilate Jesus Christ by nailing him to an X - a cross of wood. That system thought it could X out his life and X out his message, and that would be the end of him. The system was wrong. More powerful than the Terminator, Jesus promised, ‘I’ll be back’.

And he did come back!

He is X, the Christ. And we are Xians, followers, imitators and storytellers of the Christ.

My goal and my prayer is that all of us who are within arm’s length and speaking distance of an ‘Xer’ will pray, love, reach out and become involved in the process of that person’s life and tell the story of Jesus X, the man of the cross. My goal and prayer is that you and I will see Xers become Xians and that this generationn will be won for God. My goal and my prayer is that someday the ugly term ‘Generation X’ can be invested with a new meaning: the Generation of Christ.