![]() I think our church is probably prone more in the other direction: “Let's study and know, and let's get deep.” We probably need a little more prodding I probably need to do a little more prodding, as a pastor, and draw the net and bring the application home. I think the personality sort of followed that in our church.Īnn: And what about you, Bob?-you're a pastor.īob: I'm a pastor. I think it's sort of an expression of my top gift, as probably an evangelist and so I'm the guy, that when I preach, I'm always asking, “So what?”-you know-“What are we going to do with this?” Obviously, we want to go deep biblically/we want to go deep in Scripture but I'm always going to lean that way. You've been a pastor for, how many decades now?-three-plus decades right?īob: And as a pastor, would you say people in your church are more prone to want to study and go deep in God's Word-īob: -or to want to live missionally: do evangelism and discipleship?ĭave: I mean, again, I'm being very sort of facetious right? But we are a church of action. Stay with us.Īnd welcome to FamilyLife Today. What does it look like for you to live life on mission for God? You need a little equipping/a little training to figure that out? We're going to talk more about that today. Our hosts are Dave and Ann Wilson I'm Bob Lepine. Kennon: I think of 2 Corinthians 5: “If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation the old has gone, the new has come” All this from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation.” It's sad to me that somehow there's a divorce in our churches of folks that believe, “I'm saved, and the end of my salvation was me having a word of encouragement on Sunday that would get me through my week.”īob: This is FamilyLife Today for Friday, September 4 th. ![]() That version may suggest a closer connection with gobble and gab and a lesser one with jibber and jabber.Bob: When God changes a person's life, He gives that person an assignment-a new mission/something to do. ![]() But at one time, it had a hard g some current dictionaries give that as a variant pronunciation though it survives only to a small extent - a British survey in 1998 found the hard g form was used by only 4% of respondents. Today, it’s almost always said like jibberish, with a soft g sound. One notable point about gibberish is that it has shifted pronunciation. There is, you will appreciate, no truth in this. Hence, the story goes, gebberish or gibberish. The reason is to baffle and lead into error everyone except those whom God loves and provides for.” He seems to have succeeded splendidly in this aim, for the work - like most of the writings attributed to him - is hard to understand, full of mystical musings and technical terms that can’t easily be translated. This says: “And, as always, we deliberately abrogate in one book what we say in another. One work attributed to him is The Book of Stones According to the Opinion of Balinas. His name is attached to hundreds of books, covering such an encyclopaedic range that some scholars have argued he was the pseudonym of a syndicate or was awarded authorship by posterity. The best of the invented stories about its origin is the one that Dr Samuel Johnson subscribed to in his Dictionary of 1755: “t is probably derived from the chymical cant, and originally implied the jargon of Geber and his tribe.” Geber is a Latinised form of the name of a prolific eighth-century Arabic writer, Abu Musa Jabir ibn Hayyan. The alchemist Jabir ibn Hayyan, from a 15th century European portrait of “Geber”. Other experts prefer an origin in an unrecorded Germanic word. An eighteenth-century writer linked gibberish with the French word geber, meaning to cheat, which is now not thought to be in the least likely. But how they arrived and in what order is unknown. There’s a set of similar words - gibber, jibber, jabber, gobble and gab (as in gift of the gab) - that may be related attempts at imitating incomprehensible utterances. It was worse even than calling it double Dutch or asserting that it was all Greek.Įtymologists have been scratching their heads over its origin almost since it first appeared in the language in the middle 1500s. But at its strongest, in its earlier days, gibberish was speech that belonged to no known language. To describe some attempt at communication as gibberish today is most likely to disparage it as mere meaningless verbiage.
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