thoughts on the news of the day: buzzwords

hmmm….

            There’s been a list of obsolete office buzzwords on the internet news.  They are the ones people have been using that are now out of date.  Phrases like “let’s go offline with that” and Human Capital (the old Personnel Department, renamed Human Resources).  Have you heard the phrase “low hanging fruit”?  It means easy to get, though in the end, not worth the effort.  These phrases don’t mean much to anyone except for the folks who use them.

            It really bugs me that we do that in Christianity.  That is, use buzzwords that don’t mean a darn thing to most of the folks who don’t go to church. And, oh, yeah, there’s even a buzz word for those folks:  “unchurched”.  How would you like to be called “unchurched”,  sort of like “unclean”, isn’t it?  Then there’s our “confessions”  -- sure we have lots of sins to confess but that’s not what confessions means.  In Christian-ese, it means “beliefs”.  Then there are words like “disciple” which simply means follower.

            So why don’t we just say that.  We could just say something like “I follow Jesus.” But, of course, the problem becomes that we then have to do what we say and follow a man who loved the poor, those in prison, the unclean and well,… uh… the unchurched.  Also, a man who died for something.  That’s a little more complicated.

Wonder what Jesus would say about that?

hmmm ….