{"id":182,"date":"2010-07-08T16:31:34","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T16:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/stuffchristianculturelikes\/2010\/07\/169-relevant-pastor-speak.html"},"modified":"2010-07-08T16:31:34","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T16:31:34","slug":"169-relevant-pastor-speak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stuffchristianculturelikes\/2010\/07\/169-relevant-pastor-speak.html","title":{"rendered":"#169 Relevant pastor-speak"},"content":{"rendered":"<form class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" contenteditable=\"false\" style=\"DISPLAY: inline\" mt:asset-id=\"16177\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 20px; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" height=\"553\" alt=\"ron-burgundy.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/105\/import\/relevant\/ron-burgundy.jpg\" width=\"360\" \/><\/form>\n<p align=\"left\">A current phenomenon in Christian culture is for church leaders to speak with a certain cadence and inflection. In the same way newscasters have their own industry-wide manner of speaking, so does Christian culture. <\/p>\n<p>The church leader endeavors to speak with <em>earnest approachability<\/em> that is simultaneously <em>sincere <\/em>and <em>authoritative<\/em>. He doesn&#8217;t want your mind to wander. He is going to engage you. The gospel of Christ has captured people&#8217;s attention for like 2,000 years but he isn&#8217;t taking any chances. You&#8217;re going to pay attention to what he is saying, or at least to the fact that he&#8217;s saying it with the same cadence, tone and inflections as every other church leader and conference speaker.<\/p>\n<p>You will observe this brand of pastor-speak in all occasions when the church leader or the aspiring church leader speaks in front of a group or into his webcam. He does not use it in normal chit-chat unless you get to talking about premarital sex or some other subject upon which he wishes to educate you. Please enjoy these two examples of ubiquitous Christian culture speak. 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