Can I just say now that if I verbalized every word that comes into my mind, I wouldn’t have any friends? You simply cannot say every word or phrase that you think.
I always told my kids that people who use foul language all the time need to expand their vocabulary. There are thousands of words out there. If you always end up with the four-letter ones, you are displaying a level of ignorance to people, in my opinion. I would also say that people who always sexualize everything are not only unpleasant to be around, but incredibly immature (and I know both men and women who fit that description).
I realize a lot of people use this language to try and fit in or ‘be cool’, but the reality is that intelligent dialogue gets us much further than offensive language. And if you call yourself a ‘Christian’, there is honestly no excuse for not trying to avoid it…
Notice I don’t say there is no excuse for an occasional exclamatory remark that may be unseemly. I think most of us blurt out things that we would not have said had we better controlled our tongue. But there is a massive difference between an occasional unseemly blunder, and dropping F-bombs in our day-to-day speech.
Look, I speak from personal experience here – I was not raised in the church, and I was in the military. My language was truly deplorable, and it took years to just get to where I could hold a single conversation without foul language. To this day, after more than 20 years of working on it, I still slip up. But it is just that – a slip up. It is not in my daily repertoire – nor should it be in yours, Christian.
“Dirty stories, foul talk and coarse jokes—these are not for you. Instead, remind each other of God’s goodness and be thankful!” (Ephesians 5:4, TLB).
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