Is it okay for Christians to cuss on this edition of Truth and Love?

I'm Heath Lambert and you're listening to Truth and Love,

a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors

where we seek to provide biblical solutions to the problems that people face.

Amy, one problem that people face is whether they should use foul language or not.

And we want to talk about that on the podcast today.

So what questions are people asking about Christians and cussing?

Yeah, Heath, I think people are asking, just is it okay for Christians to cuss?

Nobody's arguing that you have to do this, but sometimes Christians do it when they're maybe

arguing a strong point or if they get injured, it comes out.

So is this okay for Christians to do?

Yeah, you know, I think you're right. I don't know of the

Christian that is insisting that Christians have to use this kind of foul language, but you're right,

there's times in stressful moments, angry moments, moments of worry, moments of privacy when these

words kind of come out. And so I think it's good to ask whether or not it's okay. And I think we should

be clear that it is not okay for Christians to cuss. We actually should be clear that it's not okay

for anybody to cuss, but we just don't have the expectation that unbelievers would avoid cussing.

But for Christians, I think we should have the expectation that they would not use this kind of foul

language. And the reason is because of a text like Matthew 12, verse 36, it says, I tell you,

on the day of judgment, people will give account for every careless word they speak. For by your

words will you be justified and by your words will you be condemned?

It's a passage that teaches that our words are powerful, so powerful in fact that they are the

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