I hereby call for a moratorium on the following words and phrases:
"stepping out of your comfort zone"
"putting God in a box"
"anointed" -- as in, "That song was so anointed," or "That Christian mime really has the anointing."
"real hope for real people in a real world"
"too blessed to be stressed"
"relevant"
"check in my spirit"
"Lord, we just wanna . . ."
That is all.
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I might also add any Christian song that imagines the singer looking out a window on a rainy day.
I might also add any Christian song that imagines the singer looking out a window on a rainy day.
If I ever wrote "LOL", I would write it now.
Oh, "relevant" is so good (meaning, bad) I have to add it to the post.
People really say anointed like that? Maybe that's a regional thing? I've never heard that.
I'm guilty of the I just wanna start to prayers, too. Adding just to every sentence in prayers seems to be something Christians do a lot anyway.
Hah! I did a post like this last summer. Some of my (non)favorites were :
- it’s not about religion, it’s about relationship
- God told me
- usher in the presence of God
- laid it on my heart
- don’t open yourself up to…
I've actually never heard a few of those. Most of them are classic clichés, though; and I agree with your earlier post that "'check in my spirit' = 'I don't like you.'"
As for "relevant," I think that's actually dangerous, not just annoying.
Just did, Bill. Thanks for the invite.
I don't hear people use "annointed" that way either, and it sounds sacreligious to me. Reminds me of an interview I heard with the author, I think, of a book called Dangerous Worship or something like that. He said we usually say a worship service was good when it gives us that fun, narcissistic buzz. If the service convicted us to the marrow, we would likely say something else, if anything at all.
My pastor told a story once about being in the wrong when we criticized a man for saying God told him something. He had a good theological point, but he should have held his tongue and maybe spoken the truth in love much later.
This post is just so annoin--um, it's just such a blessing that I had to link to it just now.
OOOOOH. Jared, I'm going to have to go throw away my business cards now.
Sorry, Phil. I forgot you worked for Lord, We Just Wanna Baptize Baptist Church.
Can we add "...and then God showed up"? Also, "I wrote this song for my husband, but later realized it could be about Jesus, too!" No really, someone said that.
Great post.
My vote: "[blank] for the whole family". E.g., "safe", "fun", "relevant", ad nauseum.
Heh - I've used "God showed up" before (because I think he did) - but I can understand how that gets old.
Not to let this post devolve too much into snarkery, but there's one that really does bug me, and I heard it in a worship song today. It goes something like this:
"Let's just let God do His work"
Like He's asking our permission or something :-)
Another: "Practical Bible Study" (because I think it's always practical).
Having just watched the Republican Debate from CA on youtube, I propose a moratorium on John McCain's use of the phrase, "foot soldier in Reagan's army".
Jared,
Touché on all of those.
I would add:
"Just let go and let God."
"...Spirit-filled __________."
Any spiritual experience labeled sweet. (As in "That was a sweet time of worship.")
Any quoting of Jeremiah 29:11 as a prop for people's dreams for their own lives.
Any quoting of Romans 8:28 without a concerted effort on the part of the quoter to help (in a practical way) the person being quoted to.
As for the people claiming to have never heard the term anointed or anointing tossed around, they've obviously never stepped foot into a charismatic, Pentecostal, Assemblies of God, Foursquare, Church of God, Holiness, Bible Baptist, Apostolic, Primitive Baptist, or any kind of old school "founded in America not Europe" type of church.
This may not make much sense but:
"cool" versus "cheesy"
Way tired of that . . .
The word 'just' should not be allowed in prayer. People ask God to 'just' do ten things. The word does not function that way, people!
What about Too blest to be strest?
'cept I always am strest...so never mind!
Casting Crowns on "Relevance":
What this world needs is for us to stop hiding behind our relevance
Blending in so well that people can't see the difference
And it's the difference that sets the world free
I'm going to need a support group, b/c I use that last one myself all the time.
Lord, I just wanna ask you to make me stop beginning prayers with "Lord, we just wanna".