• allegiance–the loyalty of a citizen to his or her liege, in this case, Christ.  Pledging to any other is treason.
• alter call–an evangelist preacher’s invitation at the end of the sermon, asking people to come forward to acknowledge a commitment to living an alternative culture (see culture).
• detergent church–a church whose sole purpose is to purge the skid marks sin has left on man’s soul and our society.
• follower–a believer who demonstrates support and allegiance to a person, a doctrine, a cause, with implications of a personal relationship, acquiescence and active championship.
• chicken poop for the soul–Christian clutter in our storage spaces and in our souls.
• culture–the behaviors and beliefs characteristic of a particular religion or sect often considered to be extremist or unorthodox, with members living outside of conventional society under the direction of their Leader, Jesus Christ.
• evangelist–from the Greek evangelion meaning “bringer of Good News” that there is another kingdom, another economy, another leader who is the Savior.
• faith–from the Greek pistis for “duty for fulfilling one’s trust”(Matthew 19:14, Isaiah 11:6d), loyalty.
• false profits–false prophets
• Jubilee-redistribution, release and rest, as in redistribution of wealth, a release from any bondage that holds individuals captive, and a rest and freedom from work.
• rebelution–a cross between rebellion and revolution, an uprising against social norms of apathty and indifference, a rebellion against rebellion.
• spiritual midwife–a person trained to aid another in producing something spiritually new and different with God.
• orthodoxy–belief, practice, and character conforming to the Christian faith as represented in the creeds of the early church.  Further known as orthopraxis.
• politics–from the Greek polis meaning “city, civil, citizen, civic, to be a society of people.”  This new city is the New Jerusalem.
• practicing resurrection–to follow, observe, exercise, train, perform, and pursue habitually or customarily the kingdom we are to “incarnate now,” the one that is “within us,” “among us,” and “at hand,” “on earth as it is in heaven.”
• prophetic imagination–coined by Walter Brueggemann, this refers to the faculty of imagining, or of forming mental images or concepts, of what is not actually currently present but can be consistent with reality in order to face and resolve difficulties, the opposite of which is redemptive violence (see below).  Arsenal may include the elements of laughter, surprise, and humor due to their “disarming” quality (Colossians 2:15).
• radical–from the Latin rood radix for root, the root for discovering what it means to be Christian disciples.
• redemptive violence–an unjust or unwarranted exertion of force or power, as against rights, laws, and beings.  The damage done by this intense revenge communicates that some are beyond redemption, such as with the death penalty.  Example: ”the government that had trained McVeigh to kill, killed him, to teach the rest of us that it is wrong to kill.”  Please see prophetic imagination above (”violence is for those who have lost their imagination”).
• spiritual bulimia–a habitual disturbance in consumption behavior linked to identity and image.  It is characterized by frequent episodes of grossly excessive intake of Christian industrial products followed by self-induced vomiting to avert appearing unspiritual.  Inadvertently, the consumer experiences malnourishment from never properly digesting “our daily bread.”
• spiritual leprosy–a chronic, infectious disease characterized by numbness and loss of feeling for others.
• spiritual masturbation–the stimulation or manipulation of one’s own faith in order to be emotionally charged but never give birth to anything.
• totemisim–coined by Emile Durkheim, the human tendency to form our conception of God in our own image
• vocation–from the same root as voice, a strong impulse, inclination, and calling to follow God’s service, function, and station within the Christian station of life.