Bingo

Posted by: Tom,

I love the IBM commercial about the convention goers playing Buzzword Bingo. It shows them handing out buzzword bingo cards at the beginning of a lecture. Then you see a speaker throwing out all kinds of buzzwords as he gives his presentation. Right in the middle a young lady playing the game yells out "Bingo" which brings the proceedings to a stop while they try to figure out what's going on.

I wanna play! I wanna play! It seems most of the pastor-type conferences I've been to are also filled with buzzwords. I just want to yell out Bingo right in the middle of one and see if anyone gets how ridiculous we are with our latest and greatest buzz.

I've got to be careful though. I can see it now. About half we through my next sermon some smarty pants is going to yell bingo. I'll probably just fold up my notes and say a benediction.


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Tom,

As a geek I can tell you that game's been around a long time and quite popular among programmers. In fact, there are all kinds of sites for generating tech and business buzzword bingo cards, but none for Christian buzzwords (that I could find).

Gimme a list of 50-100 or more and I can probably whip a random card generator up pretty quickly and would be happy to host it on my Web site for all to play.

Hmmm...I was looking for something to do this weekend... :-)
Lol Jim,

I'll need some help on this one but here is a start. I don't mean these words are necessarily bad but I hear them all the time.

Church Growth
Emergent
Emerging
What does that look like to you?
Church Health
Church Multiplication
Church Planting
Missional
Post-modern
Modern
Contemporary
Traditional
Great Commission
Great Commandment
Natural Church Development
Assimilation
Mega-church
Small Church
Leadership
Missiological
Hierarchal
Conversion
Evangelical
Liberal
Conservative
Orthodoxy
Neo-orthodoxy
Praxis
Version 0.1 beta is up at my web site. See my blog post about it for the link.
And version 0.6 is up to 56 words and counting. Man, it's addicting! :-) I've expanded the buzzwords to include not just "professional" words, but some that I know my non-Christian friends have found confusing or opaque (because they've told me so).
 
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