Pastor’s Blog

I’m loving that Ed is talking about something my friends & I have discussed recently — how everyone feels that they have to use certain words to emphasize certain feelings, emotions, etc….its really easy to fall into that trap…words that are so acceptable in families & with teenagers these days — well, my parents would have washed my mouth out with Lava soap if I’d even THOUGHT them…they are still considered “ugly words” to me today & I don’t allow them in my classroom or at home…its not a crime to be old-fashioned in some ways….thanks for sharing, Pastor!
Angela

I was always told, don’t use that language at home or with friends. Then, one day, I responded to my mom: But everyone else uses it! My mom said, YOU are not everyone else. That language is improper to use and does not belond in this house nor in your vocabulary. I quit using it except for those rare times when I was under so much stress. But God, through the rebirth, showed me scripture that says otherwise. Now I don’t use that language anymore, because I know He is watching and will warn me if I even think it. I agree with you, Pastor Jerry. There are better & nicer ways to say what you have to say without using bad language (profanity).

1Timothy 4:12 Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

We need to take to heart what Pastor Ed has talked about, we need not talk like the world to make our point, we are called to be separate from the world in all areas of our life especially in our conversation.

Well there in lies the problem… Bad language to you may not be bad to other but we condemn those who say words we may not like. So what is filthy? I hear Christians all the time say shoot or darn and yet they think they are ok but those words origins are based on so called “cuss” words. Is it better?
We need to be willing to let God direct our tongue and not judge what others say. I can’t say whats filthy, I just know what offends me or what God impresses on me that’s not OK. I won’t say those things. I think this needs to be less of an argument amongst Christians and we need to focus on living like Christ did.

I think it’s a tricky subject. What defines a ‘cuss word’? I guess a good rule of thumb would be the scripture where we are told to abstain from all appearance of evil. I carpool with this guy who is very strict and much much more ‘conservative’ in his walk with God than I am. I would say ‘ ah crap’ or ‘ man, I’m p*ssed’ when talking to him and then one day out of the blue he goes off on a rant about how people claim to be Christians but used the words that I’d said before. No doubt he was talking to me, but I didn’t take offense. I just stopped using those words around him. I am not going to live my life by his standards, but I won’t offend him by saying things that only he thinks are bad. I know guys in ministry who don’t thing ‘cussing’ is the same as ‘cursing someone’. They’ll say ‘ what the h#ll’ and ‘ kick some #ss’ in casual conversation and not think twice. ‘Hey, I’m just being real. It’s who I am’. I don’t take offense to it because I see their daily walk. I think, for me, it’s better just to keep my mouth shut. If there’s one thing I learned by reading Proverbs, it’s to keep yer trap shut. I grew up being told that there were these little things call ‘ bi-words’, which were ‘almost cuss words’. Like ‘darn, heck, gosh, dang, etc.’ They were almost as bad as cuss words, so they were only 75% of a sin, i guess. i couldn’t help but wonder ‘if bi words were a sin to say, then why not just go ahead and and say the genuine bad word?’ Am I rambling? ….

Great stuff!