Hello and welcome to the thinking fellow's podcast My name is Caleb Keith, and today I am joined by Adam Francisco, Scott Keith, and Bruce Hillman. We are doing some multiple topics today. We're looking at a list of words that came up from, it looks like an article

from July that Bruce might know this guy. His name is Dr. Matthew Richard. He was Lutheran

brethren and became else. Oh, I do know him. Yes. I know him. Um, and he, when he did his demon, did

like a word study on the differences of people who converted from evangelical American backgrounds

to Lutheranism. And it looks, it was very interesting to several people who, uh, sent it to me.

We had one particular person at 1517, send this over and

say, you guys should talk about this, which is basically a bunch of these words or doctrines

or terms that Christians sort of universally use, but then self-reported people who converted

to Lutheranism said these were the ones that sort of tripped me up because they were used so

differently by Lutherans. So I thought we would talk about a bit of how doctrines or words

can be used differently by different groups and why. How is that if Christianity is sort of this

actually unified religion or the Bible is clear, why are words being used differently?

So we could talk about that a little bit. And then we could talk about some of this specific examples here. But that's going to be my opening question is, why does a problem like this exist? Why are Christians using words so differently that it might be confusing between

the denominations? I will let anybody who speaks first.

Can I ask a clarifying question? Probably because I wasn't paying as close attention as I should.

Are these people converting from evangelicalism to Lutheranism or from like Roman Catholicism or does that even happen anymore?

No, so this is what he said. He did a demon research on worship. He surveyed it seems like people who were former evangelicals who transitioned into confessional Lutheranism,

and they reported that they had specific linguistic challenges with familiar words in American evangelicalism.

These words included words like grace, faith, kingdom of God, sanctification, gospel, sinner, Holy Spirit, sacraments, and sin, and more than that, where they

had trouble because definitions or uses that they were used to as an evangelical did not match

the definition or use in Lutheran churches.

Well, I suspect one of the words that popped out as you're going through that list as I was trying to pay close attention was grace.

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