Terms starting with L

Placing a hand on someone's shoulder, head, or back while praying for them — for healing, blessing, commissioning, or ordination.

The roughly forty days before Easter, from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday, kept as a season of repentance, fasting, and preparation — often by giving something up.

A Bible verse a person has adopted as personally meaningful — a motto, a promise, or a summary of their faith — often for years, and often printed on something.

Praying for someone — bringing their name and need before God. Nobody is physically lifted.

A set, repeated order of worship with written prayers, readings, and congregational responses, followed the same way every week.

The way a person most naturally gives and receives love — words, time, gifts, service, or touch — from a 1990s Christian marriage book that became a worldwide idea.

A special collection, given freely and beyond regular giving, for a specific person or cause — a guest speaker, a family in crisis, a missionary passing through.

To show active, tangible care for someone — hugs, meals, attention, help, presence — especially to people who need it.

A phrase meaning "I disagree with what you're doing, but I care about you as a person" — meant as a formula for combining moral conviction with love, and often heard very differently by the person it's said to.

Half-hearted about faith — going through the motions without commitment. The criticism comes from Revelation 3, where a church is told it's "neither hot nor cold."