Saturday, January 5, 2008

Christian Buzzwords

I found this article in the fall 2007 issue of Leadership.
Jump in our office pool. Which buzzword will be the first so overused that it's meaningless?
- Missional
- Formation
- Community
- Journey
- Resonate
- Emerging
- Authentic
- Narrative
- Metanarrative
- Story (your, mine, our)
- Visioning
- Revisioning
- Vision Casting
- Christ-follower
How do you know a buzzword is past it's prime?
- When your denomination creates a division promoting it.
- When Chuck Colson writes an article condemning it.
- When your mother gives you a magazine titled that word plus "Today."
- When your board adds it to your job description.
- When Baptist press uses it in a headline.
- When it gets its own website at ChristianityToday.com

Favorite Authors

  • Anne Lamott
  • Bill Bryson
  • C.S. Lewis
  • Mitch Albom
  • Neil Gaiman
  • Philip Yancy
  • Stephen Ambrose