It seems like a lot of people are talking about the silly way Christians talk lately. Some of it is from some recent videos on YouTube, some of it is in trying to talk about being Missional at some recent conferences like Verge and Exponential. The thing is, we invent new definitions for things when we are trying to talk about something and we want to differentiate it from what we think people would normally think we mean when we say something. For instance, when I was a kid there were two kinds of cars in my life, Hot Wheels cars and the cars that human beings fit in. A Hot Wheels car was called a car, and what my mom drove was called a “car car.” It’s the same way with things that we talk about in the church. People don’t typically get together and hang out and talk about the Bible, so when we get together with the intent to talk about the Bible, we call it a Bible Study. I’m not...
