We live in the age of label slapping. It's common and very public, especially since we can now

call people out on social media to let the whole world know how we feel. Things that are common

are not always correct. Is it right to get the branding iron out to mark people when we hate having

that done to us? Just because the culture loves

creating and applying negative labels to people with whom they disagree doesn't mean this is a good

practice. Are we becoming toxic ourselves? Thank you for joining Keep the Heart for today's podcast with Francie Taylor.

Francie is an author, conference speaker, and teacher.

She is passionate about teaching what to do with what we learn from God's Word.

Now back to today's valuable study.

Above. God's word. Now back to today's valuable study. A buzzword is basically a word that catches on in popular culture for reasons that are not

fully known. Are we buzz-wording ourselves to death these days? By definition, something that's toxic means it's poisonous.

And this was previously only used when we were referring to substances that are hazardous,

like dangerous chemicals. I get it that we're trying to say that certain people in situations

can be hazardous, but are we liberally using an overused word just because it's

the latest slang term for someone or something that we don't like? Is it possible that we're

confusing the word toxic with something else? This is just a brief examination in this episode,

which I hope will cause all of us to carefully

consider how we're becoming a little too label slap happy. We may need to take a step back from

this. Let's just consider a few things in this topic. Number one, not everyone who disagrees with

us is toxic. Where did the idea come from that people have to agree

with one point of view or they're poisonous and canceled? That came from the culture,

but people in the Bible disagreed as well, so we're not the first. Remember the sharp disagreement

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