Everything’s getting re-defined these days. “Marriage" can mean most anything. "Garbage collectors" are "Sanitation Engineers." The “mailman" is a "letter carrier." A “receptionist" is an "Administrator’s Assistant." A “ransom" is now “leverage.” Inflation indexes no longer include grocery or gas prices and the unemployment index eliminates those still unemployed but no longer looking for work. Bill Clinton made famous the sentence, "It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is."
Some redefinition may be helpful and good. For instance the growing movement to drop the denominational affiliation from the names of our churches. It seems more and more people no longer care about the denominational affiliation. They just want good music, lots of time spent praising God and a short, entertaining and uplifting talk relevant to their life.
Dropping denominational affiliation is a good thing, in my opinion. Hopefully we Christians can concentrate more on what unites us and less on what divides us. Who knows, it might even lead us back to New Testament Christianity.
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