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Baby Jesus (don’t make the Baby Jesus cry)
BHAP (big, hairy, audacious prayer)
you are the only Bible that someone might read
§ blended denominations (e.g., bapticostal, fundagelical, presbycatholic, etc.)
buzzard Baptist (and buzzard Christian)
Catholic light (Catholic lite)
charismania, charismaniac, charisma-tick
chreaster, Christmas and Easter Christian
Christian lite, Christianity lite
contemporary Christian music (CCM)
cradle Christian, cradle Episcopalian, cradle Presbyterian
dial-a-prayer, dial-a-devotion, dial-a-sermon
diet Christian, diet Christianity
don’t drink, smoke, or chew, or go with girls who do
evangelastic, evangelastically
evangelical pope, evangelical vatican
evanjellyfish, evanjellybean, evanjelly goo
Facebook fast (media fast, digital fast, electronic fast)
farewell, farewelling, farewelled
fall festival (and other Halloween nicknames)
Fleshalonians (Second Fleshalonians, 2nd Fleshalonians)
gentleman: God is a gentleman; the Holy Spirit is a gentleman
God comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable
God said it, I believe it, that settles it
Hesitations (Second Hesitations, 2nd Hesitations)
hug from God (i.e., the orans posture)
koinonia, koinonia group, koinonitis
leave room for the Holy Spirit
methobapterian, pentebaptist, baptimethocostal
Newly Incorrect Version (and other Bible nicknames)
pot blessing (and other potluck nicknames)
Protestant pope, Protestant vatican
Saturday-night special, Saturday-night syndrome
seeker-sensitive, seeker-friendly, seeker-driven, seeker-oriented
stained-glass barrier; stained-glass vocabulary; stained-glass ceiling
swim the Tiber, swim the Bosphorus, walk the Canterbury Trail
Third Wave (of the Holy Spirit)
§ TULIP, five-point Calvinists, four-pointers (etc.)
Two-Thirds World, Three-Fourths World
an unspoken; (plural: unspokens)
with every head bowed and every eye closed
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