Opus 2011-75, On the Street: Dumbing Down the Church

The other day I watched a bus make a turn and on the side was printed the word, “Justification.”  It was an ad for a movie and I am reasonably sure it was not a movie about theology.  “Justification” is a big word.  What if people did not understand what it meant?

Have you ever been around someone who says that we have to make the vocabulary of the Bible simpler so people can understand it.  We don’t want to use words like justification, sanctification, atonement, propitiation or depravity.  People don’t understand those words, or so we are told.  Evidently the producers of the movie did not get that memo. 

We should not be afraid to use words that have meaning.  People can learn.  They can grow.  It is our job to give them truth.

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