Lord

CRITICAL: ‘Lord’ has nearly disappeared from ordinary spoken English outside this specific religious usage, and where it does survive (British/Commonwealth aristocratic titles, ‘the House of Lords,’ fantasy fiction ‘dark lords’) it carries archaic or fictional-genre associations rather than lived, felt authority. Romans 10:9’s confession ‘Jesus is Lord’ risks landing with almost no emotional or volitional force for many contemporary English readers precisely because the English word itself has gone mostly obsolete in everyday use; this curriculum must actively restore its weight (total, exclusive, personal allegiance) rather than assume the English word still carries it.