On nominal Christianity Yesterday crossed this article which has a strong stand against something called &quot;nominal Christianity&quot;.
From reading the article, I couldn't understand some points I'd like clarification in

what &quot;nominal Christianity&quot; really is

the problems with it

which terminology a Christian ought to use/follow instead
&quot;Nominal Christian&quot; means being a Christian in name only. It's not really in dispute that there are nominal Christians. There are many people around the world who would mark &quot;Christian&quot; (or Catholic, Anglican, etc) on the census who never attend any church event, participate in any other Christian ministry, or really think about God at all. Many Western countries are now largely post-Christian; they've inherited a Christian background to their culture and morals, etc., but God and the Christian religion play a small part in most people's lives.
There's a spectrum of spirituality: people who attend Christmas and Easter services but nothing else; people who attend more regularly because they're expected to, but who ignore all the Christian content; people who participate broadly but whose personal and private spiritual lives is empty; people who pray publicly in church because they've learnt what to say, but never privately and never with any actual meaning or true intention. The term &quot;nominal&quot; might be applied to any of these groups at times, and it would arguably be fair to do so.
But saying that a specific individual is a nominal Christian is pretty judgemental. Yes we're to judge people by their spiritual fruits, but we can never truly know anyone else's heart. Saying it directly to someone is also not likely to provoke them to pursue a deeper faith. Instead we'd want to evangelise them like we would someone who makes no claim to be a Christian, by communicating properly with them, asking them about their lives, and explaining and witnessing to how Jesus can reconcile them to God, filling the spiritual void in their lives carved out by their sin.