Metrospiritual (n) A person whose spiritual life is formed primarily by the urban culture of Western Civilization.
a. The Organic Metrospiritual is the person who has embraced a mainstream version of Eastern religions coupled with the desire to commune with nature and all the while rejecting is any organized religion coupled.
b. The Christian Metrospiritual is the person who has embraced all the trappings of Western-industrialized religion, along with the acceptance of our consumer culture, and syncretized them with a sturdy Christian veneer.
see also this detailed look.

Driscoll (v.): To say the single most innappropriate thing at the worst possible moment. "Dude, you should learn to keep your mouth shut. You totally driscolled."

Oh, POMOsapien! I read PORNOsapien. Uh...yeah, that's something altogether different, though I'm sure equally multitudinous.

Communikaze (n). Someone who kills their own cause by what they say or how they say it.

One I invented a while ago:

monopateretheism (n) Confusing the person of the Father within the Trinity, with God in such a way that it somewhat denies the divinity of the other persons, or it exaggerates the status of the Father. Demonstrated when Christians refer "Father God," or to how "Jesus spoke to God" or "God sent His Spirit," despite the fact that Jesus is God, and the Holy Spirit is God. (From mono pater e theos, Greek, "only the Father is God.")

Probably not as snarky as some of the other posts, but I think it deals with a real theological problem that a lot of people have with their understanding of God, especially the Father.

ecclesidiot: Equivalent to the Village idiot.

Use: ":::sigh::: yes, it would seem our ecclesidiot has once again lived up to their role in the church."

Xenophoberia: a resort where they serve white bread, tuna casserole, and sparkling wine to people who are all alike

Evangileech (N) - An extrovert with the gift of evangelism who is always ready to jump on someone with Jesus whether they know them or not and irrespective of whether or not they have shown any interest in following Christ or not.

Did you see that evangileech trying to give that poor woman a tract?

I don't have any new words to offer other than, to say, I'm loving this conversation. ;o)

You are all making my day and increasing my vocabulary at the same time. Thanks for bringing a smile to my face! ;o)

But some of you sound like you have just a little too much time on your hands...how about a word that describes someone addicted to "Christian blogs?" or does that hit a little too close to home? ;o0

Missin'Arry (n): a person devoted to spreading the Gospel according to Harry Potter by knocking on doors and reading tracts from "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", especially the scene at King's Crossing. Those Potter missin'Arries always seem to knock on my door at the most inopportune time.

Randal - this one is for you!

Outofuranite:

Someone who spends just a little too much time surfing/commenting/arguing on the Out of Ur blog.

“You are really becoming quite the “Outofuranite” lately aren’t you? You can’t stay away from that site."

Excuse my submission of a decidedly non-ideological entry, but this is a word I created out of frustration and necessity. It describes an oft-repeated experience as I commune with my computer:

digistraction (also, digistracted)

Def: "The experience of interfacing with the internet with a specific intent and research goal in mind, only to become unintentionally distracted prior to reaching that goal by other links that lead one link-years away from the original reason for going online."

Urnest though I am in offering it, I know it won't be a Lexicontest winner, but I bet you've experienced it, too.

Predispensensationalism (adj.) – theory for capturing the attention of or marketing products to those we know will be “left behind.” They learned all about predispensensationalism in their “Calvin and Prophecy: Where Two Roads Meet in the Wood” class at the seminary.

Sacriledge (n.) – the last point before one falls into heresy. His ideas about the Trinity have put him on the sacriledge.

Ex-o-gesis (n.) – process for relating Scripture to Mary Magdalene in order to apply it to today’s circumstances. Dan Brown uses the process of ex-o-gesis in writing his novels.

Trapture (n.) – the point in time when a person has promised to do something he or she knows cannot be done (physically, actually, legally, or morally), and Jesus won’t be coming soon enough to forestall the inevitable. Even before she left the room, she knew her promise was bringing the trapture upon her.

DYSLOOPIC (adj): a moment of slight disorientation when you don't understand what is going on because you missed an important bit of info from an earlier event; i.e., you are "out of the loop." Often happens in meetings.

Jack felt dysloopic about chuckles in the office until Sharon explained how Tom accidentally belched during the last meeting.

HERE IS A SECOND ENTRY -- an acromyn some friends of mine coined when watching charismatic leaders at various meetings.

LYKWYD (an acronym) for Like-You-Know-What-You're-Doing: a self-assuredness that convinces others that you are in control; a quality of leadership that exudes confidence in every situation.

Example: Everyone liked Mark because he was so LYKWYD when others were nervous or unsure about what to do next.

Aclueistic: adj; Having no understanding or presence of mind about spiritual matters or anything else. See also: "Saved but never engaging or winsome" or "Shoot low sheriff, he's riding a Shetland." SLANG: "He doesn't have a blinking clue."

I don't know if this is the place to post an entry for the contest, but here's one:

Betamorphosis - to try out changes before committing to them.

Obluberated - being profoundly thankful for a gracious act to a degree that it will not be forgotten quickly. As my father use to say, "Your generosity will never be obluberated."

consiberal (n):
Person who refuses to be pigeon-holed into one particular political camp, but instead holds ideologies from both sides.

no gruntstuff(intellectually demanding)this week.

"FightinFundy" (N) One who never moves beyond the basics and is proud to be there.

"FightinFundyFan" (N) The one who gives the "FightinFundy" offerings of encouragement.

...just some folks i know... :)

islethelete - Noun 1. a person who feels compeled to "walk the isle" or seek counsel after every sermon, alter call, spiritual challenge. 2. a person who is easily manipulated and feels convicted about everything all the time even when they have no reason too.
etymology - from the popular church slang "isle athelete" used in the 70's to refer to a child who went forward in every service for the attention, or because they were especially soft hearted.

Chillate

It's a word we came up for taking time out. Chilling and having a cup of coffee...When life gets too busy or tough, it's time to have a chillate.

joahna -

so that you don't get unfairly disqualified for misspelling (mispelling?) your entry, i think it should be "aislethelete."

otherwise, they'll think you're talking about olympians from cyprus...

mike rucker
fairburn, ga, usa

I love dysloopic & digistration.

Suffering from digistraction right now!

-Sermonologue (n). An unsolicited discourse delivered by a pastor in casual conversation which interrupts the natural course of the dialogue by at least 10 minutes and usually includes, at a minimum, three points. “So I just mentioned to Steve how it seems like Christians are becoming more ecologically-minded and he goes into this 15 minute sermonologue about the role of creation care in God’s redemptive plan.”

-Emergentcy (n). A crisis situation that occurs in traditional conservative churches whenever the works or quotes of an emergent (or emergent-by-association) thinker are introduced. “I heard we had an emergentcy here on Sunday when Pastor found out that the new spiky-haired youth intern was planning on leading a discussion on that Blue Like Jazz book with the high school group instead of running sword drills for the Awana semi-finals.”

-Flannel graphing (v). The process of sanitizing material in a sermon to the propriety level of a fourth-grader in order to reduce the risk of offending any delicate ears in the congregation. “Bill, do you think you were flannel graphing a little bit when you were preaching on 1 Samuel 18 and you said that David presented the full number of the Philistine’s ‘circumcision parts’ to the king?”

-Conversatiation (n). The experience of finding oneself unable to handle one more second of post-Sunday service chit-chat and looking frantically to one’s spouse to wrap things up. “I’ve had such intense conversatiation the last few weeks after church that I’m thinking about slipping out during the pastor’s prayer this Sunday.”

Grenade evangelism: a program that allows church members to feel as though they're making an impact on their community, but still allows them to keep their distance.

Example: "Our pastor used to put his sermons on YouTube -- but it turned out to be nothing more than grenade evangelism.

See also: Gospel Blimp

lunarversary (n) The monthly recurrence of the numeral in the calendar marking a notable event.

This Saturday, my wife and I will be celebrating our 173rd wedding lunarversary.

Calvinian - Slightly disoriented when free will and God's sovereignty intersect.

Optipest - An optimistic outlook shaded by realistic overtones when things don't go as dreamt.

Gymnastics (see Hermeneutical) (n) – The process of jumping, twisting and turning around, through, above and below scripture so as to insert a favorite doctrine into whatever whitespace one can find.

It sure took some hermeneutical gymnastics to get all the animals on the ark baptized.

Theologistics (n)--The art of appearing highly knowledgable about arcane theological dogma when proof texting to defend one's theological opinions. Typically practiced with great confidence and assurance. Ex: "His theologistics left his listeners in stunned silence."

Theologista (n)--One who wields theological dogma as a verbal and ideological sword to intellectually eviscerate and quarter anyone who questions or disagrees with the theologista's stated views. Ex: "As a practiced theologista, he took no prisoners and offered no mercy."

ur-employed -- what some frequent posters might be because of the time they spend posting at Ur or checking to see if someone has responded to their most recent post. "If you spent as much time looking for work as you do reading and posting at Ur, you wouldn't be ur-employed."

Sanctifideocation (n): The spiritual process by which one becomes Truly Reformed. Ex: "Cal's sanctifideocation was totally and unconditionally irresistible."