Christianity has its own jargon--propitiation, atonement, witnessing, etc. There is nothing wrong with the words except that they are not understandable to people who did not cut their teeth on a Bible. It does little good to witness to a non-Christian using words that are only understandable to a Christian. After decades of studying the Bible, I am fluent in Christianese, but what I overheard in the grocery store last week made me uneasy. Creeped me out actually. A married couple and another man who were obviously Christians and obviously well acquainted were speaking, but they were not conversing. They were quoting scripture and Christian sayings to each other without any normal conversation in between. Even though the verse responses did not really fit with each other, they seemed satisfied with the con-verse-ation. It was like overhearing a discussion in a foreign language I understood, then finding out it was a bomb threat.
The encounter made me think about God though. I thanked Him fervently, soberly and persistently--that I do not belong to their church.
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