For instance, the world of music has its own language, whether from the classical period of the symphony and opera or the popular music of hip-hop, house, garage, and other categories of sounds that are pumped out of our radios or iPods today. The church has its own language, replete with terms like sin, grace, and forgiveness. These terms mean something to those of us in the community of faith but are understood differently outside the church—and they are perhaps increasingly not properly understood
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