The whole "true christian" is a concept of the imagination. I mean I'm sure Jesus never told his followers to start churchs or have crusades in his honour. I'm sure he just wanted people to believe in god a little more, and offered himself as proof that god cares about his people and that people should love eachother just like god loves them. It's a beautiful concept that is almost non-existent in todays christianity anyhow.

Seriously though when was the last time preachers in America taught people to help eachtother and to treat eachother the way they want to be treated in a major public way? All I hear is that they are against gay marriage and abortion, as if those are the biggest issues jesus ever talked about. In fact I doubt Jesus ever mentioned those. Gays were only bashed in the Bible a couple of times by St.Paul who said "anyone doing those despicaple acts with the same sex should be killed". There is lies the problem with modern christianity which is but a reinvention of what Paul, Thomas Aquinas, and Augustine thought god and jesus were all about.