GC Terminology

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[ISU Alumna]

"Counsel" - Permission

Yes indeed! And here are a few more translations:

"to see victory" in a certain area = to succeed at something

"The other elders and I are open to discussion on that." = You can talk until you're blue in the face, but we'll never listen.

"classroom evangelism" = the practice of interrupting university classes, into which other students have invested a great deal of time and money, and drawing unwanted attention to oneself and one's religious beliefs

"academic freedom" = an ideal to which one never gives any thought, except when using it as an excuse for interrupting university classes for the sake of classroom evangelism

"young in the Lord" = someone who has yet to be fully brainwashed

"a baby Christian" = see "young in the Lord"

"Honor thy father and mother." = If your parents are members of the church, you should be obedient to the point of letting them beat you. If they're not, you should ignore their advice on anything.

"As your deacon, I would have to advise you to seek higher counsel on that issue." = As an unmarried man, I'm terrified of what others would say if they were to see me talking to you in private.

[LucyB]

Great Commission Family = A father, a mother, and several children who work hard in a great commission church. It has absolutely nothing to do with Jesus, his words or his transforming power.

marriage seminar = parenting seminar

parenting seminar = fathering seminar

[BTDT]

"Good for your life" = you don't want to do it, but the leaders want you to.  "Mowing Tom Schroeder's lawn is good for my life." To my deep sadness, a friend referred to his fiancee that way -- "She's good for my life" -- as opposed to that crazy little thing called love.

"See you in private" - similar to getting ice cream, but more convenient and less time-consuming.  The phrase became a joke around our "house of brothers", unless the "house leader" said it with a forced smile (as opposed to a real smile).

"You just need to submit" - that one should be self-evident. 

"Out of the Spirit" = sad, angry, crabby, sorrowful...anything that wasn't happy and compliant.

"Convicted" = "God finally told you we were right"

"Get a verse" - go find something, *anything*, in the Bible that you can appear to improve in (see "Convicted").  This phrase singularly ruined my Bible study.

I'm sure there are more, but I'm getting a headache (and a bit of a heartache).

I don't know how many times I was told that Jesus was silent before His accusers, and it would be good for my life to do the same. I guess I was out of the Spirit; I needed to get a verse, be convicted, and submit, or we'd need to talk in private.  (Couldn't be my house leader's problem -- "control freak" was not part of the GCI lingo, after all.)

[nelliepooh]

I've got one to add, "perseverance of the saints" - perseverences of those who have devoted their lives to GC and bringing in new members to the church.  

I also thought it was strange that others in the group home for gc guys that my family member lives in and owns kept refering to their church group at their campus as the fellowship.

I love how these phrases show their true doctine even thougth they concider themselves to be non denominational.  I wonder how many of them would get this question right, what are the top two commands that are in the Bible?  My guess is a high percentage would say the great commission and they are wrong.  

[Now attending]

I wonder how many of them would get this question right, what are the top two commands that are in the Bible?  My guess is a high percentage would say the great commission and they are wrong. 

I'm not going to speak for other churches, but at the church that I attend, the distinction is made between the great commandment and the great commission, and the terms commandment and commission.

[nelliepooh]

That's good to hear. 

[blonde]

Hug- Make sure the hug you do that you are standing at the side of the sister or brother.  NEVER do frontal HUGS.  It might TEMPT him.

A Frontal Hug - See "hug."

"I took her dinner." - see if a sister will get engaged after telling her you are interested in marry her when she never knew you were interested in her in the first place.

"To see where the Lord can take us." - See "I took her to dinner."

"I observed her in a group setting" - wanting to ask a girl out for a date but never had the balls to ask.

"I was hurt" - This particular sister said no to him, since she had no way of getting this guy and why the hell he came out of nowhere to ask her to be his wife.
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"An old night prayer meeting" - having a prayer meeting all night long with an option for Dominoes as a back-up-plan for a late late dinner.

Too-long-a-silence during a prayer meeting - a want-to-be pastor fills in the gap or a current pastor prayer for something to make others want to pray.

[G_Prince]

This has to be one of the funniest threads on the forum!!!

Let's see if I can do any.

"The Lord laid it on my heart" (I thought about this this morning)

"Be a good steward of your time" (Just say no to free time)

"building into their life" (stalking)

"teach your kids to obay" (Jesus wants you to hit them)

"I know their heart" (Don't challange my preconcieved ideas about person x!)

"Orgasm!" (a word to yell at your audience at a marriage conference)

"Courting" (co-dating with your life group leader)

"the world" (an undefined entity that constantly tries to make you do fun stuff, like sleep instead of going to your 6:30 AM Saturday morning prayer time)

"liberal professors" (any professor not currently attending a GCx church)

"swear words" (things to yell at an appropriatly warned high school audience at your "edgy" teen retreat)

[G_Prince]

Hug- Make sure the hug you do that you are standing at the side of the sister or brother.  NEVER do frontal HUGS.  It might TEMPT him.

A Frontal Hug - See "hug."

"I took her dinner." - see if a sister will get engaged after telling her you are interested in marry her when she never knew you were interested in her in the first place.

"To see where the Lord can take us." - See "I took her to dinner."

"I observed her in a group setting" - wanting to ask a girl out for a date but never had the balls to ask.

"I was hurt" - This particular sister said no to him, since she had no way of getting this guy and why the hell he came out of nowhere to ask her to be his wife.