Etymology

Jesus is my boyfriend

Today it means: A style of worship songs with excessively emotional, sometimes borderline sexual, lyrics. Full definition →

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Used within Christian discourse to denote a phenomenon in which certain worship songs permit the substitution of sacred referents, such as Jesus or Lord, with secular terms like baby or the name of a romantic partner, thereby transforming the composition into a conventional love song.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.