Words Seasoned with Salt

Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person. Colossians 4:6

I am frustrated. No, I am actually more than frustrated – I am mad. Now do I have your attention?

We’ve talked about the use of our words many times in the Freedom Fighter blogs. But I want to lay this out there as a blogger and get you to think about it with me.

I am really getting tired of the way so many people use their social media privileges to tear down the body of Christ rather than build up. I continue to read some of the most hurtful blogs, Facebook posts and Tweets.

I know all about “free speech.” Yes, I understand that I can hit “delete” when I wish I could click “unlike” instead.

But why do we have to always be so mean and ugly? We take statements that speakers and authors make/write and so often take a sentence totally out of context and then build a case/argument based on what someone else heard that they said or wrote. We don’t check it out for ourselves, which by the way is what we get upset about the main stream media for doing all the time.

Last week a prominent preacher who has spent much pulpit time criticizing and telling his congregation what other Christian leaders should or shouldn’t say or be doing, was dismissed from his historic church because of infidelity and misuse of money.

I would like to think that we could do far more to draw people to Christ by using our words to encourage people to read the right books, give them resources for biblically based teaching without feeling the need to tear down others at the cost of being “right!”

Yes, there is a place for exhortation and exposure of error. But is there not also the need to expose truth and exhort the body to be Christ-like in what we say/write?

Maybe more people would desire to be members of the family of God if we would demonstrate with our mouths that there is a difference in our lives. Something to think about. – Bill Welte is President and CEO of America’s Keswick

Team YOU: Psalm 72-73; Proverbs 7; Romans 9:1-15

Motivations: I would rather pay to preach than be prayed not to preach. Samuel Chadwick

Practice to Remember: Level 1:Philippians 3:7-8; Level 2: Philippians 2:25-30