In the church today, “Lord” is used indiscriminately of God and of Jesus in a way that conflates the two. This serves the objectives of trinitarianism quite well because trinitarianism doesn’t want to make a distinction between God and Jesus. In trinitarian churches, referring to Jesus as “Lord” is tantamount to saying that he is God. But this is not so in the New Testament. Addressing Jesus as “Lord” is to acknowledge him as the Master of our lives; it is not an assertion of deity.