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“Religious” Expression
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Might be Interpreted by Some to Mean
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“Translations” That More Clearly Express What You Want to Say
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Christian
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Non-Jew
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Church
member
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Ethical,
moral person
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A
follower of Christ.
One
who has a living relationship with Jesus Christ as a person whom
he or she knows and loves.
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Saved
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Being religious
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You were rescued from some danger.
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All
mankind was saved by the death and resurrection of Jesus.
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Rescued from the power of living a self-directed life.
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Having experienced a breakthrough of God into your life.
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Transfer of ownership of your life from self to Jesus.
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Revival
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A comeback.
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New public interest in an old product.
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A
series of religious meetings to renew devotion to God.
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Under
conviction
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Conscience bothers you.
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You feel guilty.
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Found guilty of a
crime.
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Feeling a barrier between yourself and God.
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God convinces you that you are living a self-directed life out of
fellowship with God.
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Sin
Lost
in Sin
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Specific acts that are considered wrong.
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Something you feel guilty about.
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Forgetfulness.
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Feeling a barrier between yourself and God.
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Man’s basic nature; rebellion against God.
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Living a self-directed life.
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A wrong relationship with God.
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Repent
Repentance
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Being sorry you were caught doing wrong.
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A resolve to do better.
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Turning over a new leaf.
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A change of mind.
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Admit our wrong relationship with God and ask God to help us turn
from it.
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Willing to turn around and go the other way.
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Turn from living my way to follow God’s way.
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Believe
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To think something is true: head knowledge.
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Intellectual assent to Christian faith.
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To know something is true by experience.
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Heart knowledge.
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Experiential
faith in Jesus Christ as Lord.
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Invitation
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Request for a person’s company.
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Temptation or attraction.
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A time at the end of the meeting when the speaker asks for a
public response.
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An opportunity to publicly state your faith in Jesus or request
membership in a church.
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Walk
the aisle
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Is this like “walking the plank?”
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Walk to the front of the room in response to the speaker’s
request.
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Born
again
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Reincarnation.
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Baptized.
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Growing in Christian ways.
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Strongly committed (to anything) or having a change of opinion
(about anything).
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A radical change; the beginning of spiritual life.
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Receiving God’s kind of life.
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A personal experience with Jesus Christ in which God becomes real
to you.
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Baptism
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To christen; to give a child a name.
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Joining a religious group.
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Accepting a religious belief.
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Immersion in water to symbolize the Christian’s death to sin
and new life in Christ.
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A public witness that one has a new life.
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