Thoughts?
What makes bad language bad? Here’s a #ThrowbackThursday video on intention and vocabulary: http://t.co/SoEPGGVG4p
— Paul David Tripp (@PaulTripp) May 29, 2014
What makes bad language bad? Here’s a #ThrowbackThursday video on intention and vocabulary: http://t.co/SoEPGGVG4p
— Paul David Tripp (@PaulTripp) May 29, 2014
Paul's Passing Thoughts 
Clearly missing from his message is the reality that we are children of God and our language identifies us. Clearly there is a societal aspect to this, because society itself has this tendency to categorize people according to the way they speak. This is not to say that we should conform to some expectation of society, but I think as believers we must be conscious of it. Therefore I think it is important that we as believers need to be very careful with the words we use, not as a means of “ministering grace” to the hearers, but because it is indicative of who we are as born-again children of the living God.
One verse that comes to mind (and there are many) is 1 Peter 1:15, ” But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation”. Now the old english usage of the word “conversation” here is not limited to only our speech but encompasses all of our daily life in the way we convey ourselves in all of our actions. But certainly our speech is not outside of the application in this context. The point that Peter is making is that we as God’s children are “holy”, distinct from that which is profane or common or ordinary or everyday. Should not our speech be holy as well? Should we then not seek to use language that is distinct from that which the unregenerate world around us uses?
I think it is telling that Tripp avoids this aspect of speech because the absence of it reinforces his own teachings as Paul has mentioned many many times; that believers don’t really change at all, so why should our speech?
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Right, it’s an attempt to devalue, “behaviorism.”
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