(Reading Time:
3 minutes)“The myth of redemptive violence.” It seems like I’ve been seeing and hearing this term more and more lately, so I thought it was worth researching the history of the term and writing a definition for it.
clap for Jesus, hand clap of praise, clap offering
(Reading Time:
17 minutes)Let’s give the Lord a hand clap of praise! Let’s give God a clap offering!
excommunitweet
(Reading Time:
2 minutes)Excommunitweets? Those are tweets that say “Farewell!” to someone who is perceived as having left the church.
McChurch, McChristian, Burger King Bible
(Reading Time:
7 minutes)Fast-food Christianity? Apparently that’s what some people are calling it. What are your thoughts about McChurch and the Burger King Bible?
don’t drink, smoke, or chew, or go with girls who do
(Reading Time:
7 minutes)“I don’t smoke, and I don’t chew, and I don’t go with girls who do.” If you chanted this as a teenager, then odds are you were a Baptist or a fundamentalist (or both!).
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graveyard of missionaries; resistant belt
(Reading Time:
10 minutes)The graveyard! Why would Christians want to talk about graveyards and death?
divine appointment
(Reading Time:
10 minutes)God understands the convenience-oriented lifestyles we have these days. So he sometimes arranges “divine appointments” in which we can serve him as we go about our daily business.
ministerially speaking
(Reading Time:
4 minutes)When preachers and pastors use the phrase “ministerially speaking” when quoting attendance figures, they are probably fudging the numbers a bit.
Two-Thirds World, majority world, Three-Fourths World
(Reading Time:
20 minutes)Missionaries and people who study missions have invented creative terms for the unsaved parts of the world. Do you know “Two-Thirds World” and “majority world”?
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pew potato
(Reading Time:
4 minutes)Know any pew potatoes? You know, those folks who seem to just occupy a spot on the pew Sunday mornings and not do much else?