A podcast listener named Sam writes in to ask this, Pastor John, I enjoyed your episode

on Cussing, which is episode 97, a very popular episode.

It was an excellent biblical presentation.

My question is how some Christians, even preachers, use what appear to be offensive words.

My heart is broken when I hear words from the pulpit such as, and I'll read them,

shoot, crud, dang, crap, friggin' and others.

How should we, as Christians, react to these words when we hear them in the pulpit?

Yeah, and it's a lot of worse, it's a lot worse than that.

And I just came from a situation where I heard plenty of it in a Christian context for

reasons I'll try to address in a minute.

Let's begin by preempting a legitimate pushback, because I'm going to, I'm going to

side with Sam, I don't like this tendency.

I think it's not good, not biblical, and has sinful roots.

But there is a legitimate pushback, and let me address it.

Paul used scatological or garbage language.

For example, I'm thinking of Dung and Refuse to refer to his former legalistic life,

in Philippians 318, account everything as Refuse, or as garbage, or as Dung.

And I've heard some people try to justify using the S word here.

I doubt that very much.

We don't have any knowledge that would help us know the nature between the S word,

crap, Dung, Refuse.

I mean, they get increasingly grotesque, right?

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