Buzzwords

It's funny how so many buzzwords get connected to Christian things. For a while it was "Great Commission Churches" and before that "Seeker" churches. "Fundamentalist" was one. "Revivalist" was another. Right now, the two biggies among my friends are "Missional" and "Gospel-centered." I've got to admit, for a while these terms annoyed me. Weren't we just rehashing old ideas with new nomenclature? Honestly, I wasn't even really sure what they meant. Don't get me wrong, I said amen when preachers said "We're a Gospel-centered church" just like everyone else -people may have been looking- but I didn't know what that really meant. Maybe Mark Driscoll or John Piper had told all the preachers that was the right thing to do so they did. Who was I to argue? When the Pope or the Archbishop speaks...

After a while, I did what my kindergarden teacher told me to do. I put my thinking cap on. Am I really missional? Am I really Gospel-centered? These are the ideas I am going to address in my next two blogs.