Sprechen zie Jellybean?

In certain cult groups, language is used as a marker as to whether you are in or out. As an example, Jehovah's Witnesses will use the term 'new System' quite a bit, in reference to the future paradise they believe is fast approaching. Most non-JWs wouldn't even notice this jargon, but it lets other JWs know, albeit subtly, that the speaker is likely to be trustworthy. Not for definate, of course, because apostates generally know the lingo too, but you're usually on secure ground.

An Evanjellybean also has this little quirk, too, but being an exceptionally faddish creature, it is a constantly evolving jargon. It lends itself very well to soundbites and catchphrases, epithets for largely undefined groups like 'the Joshua generation'.
The biggest buzz in evanjellybean circles in the past few years has been the metaphor of the river. Starting off as standard scriptural imagery, albeit in an experience driven setting, the lingo gradually started to shift to apply the metaphor in ever-expanding ways.

So, at first you have the waterfalls of God's love, and very personal uses for this watery stuff.. but eventually you have the mega-scope of all denominations being re-branded as 'streams' which of course, come together as the one river. A neat exercise in how to lambast divisions and denominations and still keep them. I'd mention the having and keeping cake analogy, but I don't think that was ever evanjellybean-speak, however apt, and nor is it watery enough. Soggy cupcakes perhaps.

Anyway, I mention this because I'm sensing another new verbiage in the jellybean zietgeist. These things tend to emerge on the conference circuit and trendy magazines, which give them the kudos of being the 'cutting edge' terms that show just how spiritual you really are if you use them.

The latest appears to be based on painful eisegesis of the story of King Saul and King David. Saul is styled as the older, traditional generation, and the young, hip, emergent generation are, of course King David. Thus you can get in lots of humble sounding stuff about submitting to the older generation for a season, while you all the while feel a sense of great superiority that you are part of the generation seeking after Gods heart. It's not lost on them that David was a songwriter, too. All manner of excruciating parallels are then drawn, ad absurdum.

Watch out for it in a new evanjellybean pulpit near you...