What Are The Most Important “Christian” Words?

March 16, 2010 in Kids/Youth with 9 Comments

A pen used to write wordsI’m thinking about writing a series of talks for youth group defining tricky Christian jargon.

There are so many big and important words in the Bible, and many teenagers don’t know what a lot of these words mean, or what these words mean for their lives.

So far I’ve thought of a few words that I think are important.

  • Sin
  • Justified
  • Crucified
  • Resurrection
  • …

What other words can I add to the list?

I want your opinion on this one, let me know what you think are some other important words in the comments sections below. (And if you’re reading this not on calumhenderson.com, please comment here)

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9 Responses to “What Are The Most Important “Christian” Words?”

  1. Joel A Moroney March 16, 2010 at 11:12 am #

    Faith
    Holy
    Sanctified

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  2. Joel A Moroney March 16, 2010 at 11:19 am #

    Oh, I forgot to add grace

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  3. Patrick March 16, 2010 at 2:21 pm #

    Amen
    Prayer
    Meditate (not non-thinking)
    Christ/Messiah
    Immanuel/Emmanuel
    Lord… Rabbi
    Son of Man
    Son of God
    Repentance
    Reconciliation
    Redemption
    Regeneration
    Baptism
    Heart
    Soul (not Dualism)
    Flesh/Sinful nature
    Sabbath
    Passover
    Pentecost
    Idolatry
    Person (i.e. Three persons, One God)
    Judge (in Judges)
    Priest
    Prophecy
    Tongues
    Disciple
    Apostle
    Atonement = At + one + ment
    Aseity
    Ex Nihilo
    Propitiation
    Expiation
    Torah
    Pentateuch
    Teleology
    Eschatology
    Apocalypse
    Hosts
    Logos
    Hebel
    Shema Yisrael
    Anathema
    Angel
    Satan/Devil/Beelzebub
    Schmuck
    Nazirite

    At what point was I just being silly?

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    • kt June 22, 2011 at 6:35 pm #

      After about the first 2000 words… :P

      Oh, and sacrifice for a word about Christianity… did you already have that?

      And heaven, people! Hell, damned, demon, devil… all that.

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  4. Calum Henderson March 16, 2010 at 4:57 pm #

    @Joel thanks for the input! Very helpful.

    @Pat big list! But I don’t know if shema yisrael would be great for youth group kids. That’s probably where you got silly… Maybe before that… Actually, nah, youth group kids definitely need to know about schmuck!

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  5. dave miers March 16, 2010 at 10:06 pm #

    Jesus

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  6. Piers March 16, 2010 at 11:17 pm #

    and, it, the, to, them, their, this etc. Trying to communicate the gospel without them is very difficult.

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  7. Patrick March 17, 2010 at 1:00 am #

    I also forgot, for those that are already Christians:

    Apologetics = Defense/Answer in 1 Peter 3.15

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  8. Calum Henderson March 17, 2010 at 6:43 pm #

    @Dave Maybe important…

    @Piers Definitely good words, but I might not spend a whole week on each of them…

    @Patrick A good word for Christians, but yeah, maybe not so great for those who aren’t yet

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