The Words we Choose to Use.

For those of you who know me really well you know one of the things I enjoy is following/watching/playing Starcraft 2. A while back a player left a team because the team had asked him to restrict the usage of inflammatory words. The team did this not because they just wanted to have control of him and what he said, they did this cause he was representing them and they wanted to be viewed without the taint of those words. He chose to leave because he valued his "right" to do and say what he wanted over the necessity of working with others for a common goal.

This made me think about curse words. Let me define curse words in two different ways, first culturally our society has decided certain words carry a stigma of malintent and as such have been labeled as curse words. Secondly curse words scripturaly, the Word of God describes words used in anger as curse words. These words many times overlap but that is a different topic completely. The question I am looking at today is how as believers should we view these words and actions?

As believers in Christ Jesus we have freedom outside of the law (not the law imposed by government but the law given to Moses by God). So we technically have the freedom to use the words culture has deemed unfit.  Because we have this freedom does it mean that we should use it? What does the use of these words and actions show about our hearts? As in the situation above we represent someone else so, how are we representing them? Are we showing the world that liberty of words is more important than the character of God? Do we prove ourselves fools when we open our mouths or show God's wisdom through restraint?

You have the mic so what do people hear from your words?

-Keegan