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What if the biggest barrier to sharing good news isn't courage but language? Pastor Steven compares the church's familiar phrases to Pittsburgh-ese, the regional dialect where "Jeet yet?" means "Did you eat yet?" and "Kennywood's open" means your fly is down. If you're not from there, you're lost. And that's exactly what happens when the church talks to people using insider vocabulary no one outside these walls can parse. The evangelist's real gift isn't running through a script. It's building a pathway between the cosmic reality of what Jesus has done and the broken, ordinary life right in front of someone, and doing it in words that actually land.
By First Baptist Church PittsfieldWhat if the biggest barrier to sharing good news isn't courage but language? Pastor Steven compares the church's familiar phrases to Pittsburgh-ese, the regional dialect where "Jeet yet?" means "Did you eat yet?" and "Kennywood's open" means your fly is down. If you're not from there, you're lost. And that's exactly what happens when the church talks to people using insider vocabulary no one outside these walls can parse. The evangelist's real gift isn't running through a script. It's building a pathway between the cosmic reality of what Jesus has done and the broken, ordinary life right in front of someone, and doing it in words that actually land.