I have come to realize that we regularly encounter a number of oxymorons when we discuss things relating to church. An “oxymoron” is a figure of speech that combines contradictory terms. Oxymorons appear in a variety of contexts, including inadvertent errors such as ground pilot and literary oxymorons crafted to reveal a paradox. Some examples include “controlled chaos”, “organized mess”, “accidentally on purpose”, “Dark light”, “Living dead”, “New Classic”, “Old News”, “extremely average”, “objective opinion”, and “original copy”. Oxymorons are often used to convey paradox, irony, or sarcasm.
