Amos! My apologies! There, proof that I am only a fallible human. Gee, I COULD be wrong! The response was, of course, for Guest PMB.

In regards to Christian jargon it can be quite off-putting. But just about every specialized endeavor develops its own jargon which the insiders share and that creates a we/them thing. Sailors, miners, military, mathematicians, physicists, doctors, lawyers, all of them. Some do tend to be esoteric or Byzantine, arcane, convoluted (you can stop me at any point along here...)or incomprehensible. The Christian religion has been around so long and is so often quoted that it comes across cliche' and the fact that many do not want to stray from the Word, it becomes limited.

The best sermons I have heard very seldom quote Scripture but expound upon the same in such a way that one may think he has been listening to Scripture, but again, that's just me. You don't have to listen. You don't have to read it or this. There is no "force" about it.