Jesus Freak

I am not the sharpest "theologian" in the box. When I get into conversations with friends as to the definitions of what church words mean...I can keep up to a certain point. More and more I here about new church words that I have no clue what they mean.

I remember while I was in seminary that telling someone that I went to a Bible church. One of the other students ask me if I was a "dispensationalist." One of my first answers was no, I quit doing that....Just joking. Honestly I thought, "well I can't spell it, so I don't know if I am one or not." Honestly 7 years later, I don't know if I am one.

In seminary I learned all srts of big words to describe what people are and are not. Probably only seminary students care about these sort of things. Untill the day I started going to seminary I did not know a calvanist from Calvin and Hobbs. I did not know an Armenian from Amsterdam. It turns out the bulk of students and professors at the seminary that I went to were calvanist. Some even call them selves "5 Point" calvinist. The more I studied, the more I became convinced that I was not one. I wanted to form my own student association called Armeniast Annonomoys. I did not think it would go over very well.

I started reading books that I was not encouraged to read. I read about Westley, Finney, The Book of Acts, 1 Corinthians and books by Jim Cymbala. After a dynamic encounter with God while I was at the Brooklyn Tabernacle in New York I really had to sit down and examine myself and my theology.

So what am I? Am I Pentecostal or Charismatic??? My Answer is yes. Well am I a dispensationalist? I could be, but I still can spell it so I am with holding judgement on the subject. Now I work with some guys who are teaching me words like Missional, Evangelical, Post-modern, Emerging, Liturgical, Reformed.....what is a poor red neck like me to do??????

I have decided to simply adopt the title of Jesus Freak. It was good enough for DC Talk, I figure it is good enough for me. Your Thoughts?