I sumtimes wonder..

y do Christians swear?

y do we need to vent our displeasure in dat way?

y do we need to show others : SO WHAT?

i can say that too..TOOT..

How come?

I just had a convo with a Christian friend..

A Christian youth leader actually..

A good Christian leader..

one who I have come to respect a lot over the years..

I believe that person is a good Christian..

A faithful believer of the Word..

I do not doubt that this person has great faith in Lord Jesus Christ..

I do not doubt that this person is a good person..

But this friend of mine said a bad word..

TOOT..

I cringe..

SERIOUSLY,

I cringe when I hear bad words now..

Itz a phobia now..

I really do hate hearing ppl swear..

Honestly..

And this friend of my mine

Ok, I’ll reveal her sex..oops..gave that away..

Thatz all, no names k?

Haha..

She was venting on assignments and the F-bomb came out..

TOOT..

and so i said

no SWEARING around me..

seriously,

in my sch,

my frnz are careful to swear around me..

i make it clear..

I HATE

I HATE

I HATE

People CUSSING in front of me..

and sometimes they forget..

and i give them a "reminder"..

"PAP"..hehe

So i just casually told her off..

and she was quite unhappy(i perceive)..

she told me not to bring up religious talk and

told me to accept the reality that i cant go

around telling ppl wad to say and wad not to say..

My exact words were these:

Paul said, do not be conformed to the world.

Friends,

we as Christians shud never conform to the world..

in one way or another, we have conformed to the world..

i admit, my eating habits are not heavenly..=)

but the thing is..

there is no need to b offended..

and there is no need for swearing..

u may say

oh, this is who i am

so "toot" yeah, u can kiss my "toot" and

go rant ur "toot" elsewhere..

frm a non-Christian, i will (sadly and grievously) accept it..

But from a Christian,

im sorry to say, i cant accept this..

i distinctly rmb Jesus said

be in the world, but not of the world..

yes, my dear friend,

i realise that i cant make the world revolve around me..

but when the whole world around me is swearing..

i do not revolve around the world..

do u understand?

im not being sarcastic..

im saying this from a believers view..

a friends view..

im not correcting u out of spite..

im correcting u out of love..

God help me,

i feel so discouraged..

so so so discouraged..

y do Christians swear?

is it cool?

NO!!

itz far from cool..

itz like -100 on my cool-o-meter

dun tell me itz who u r..

the world sees us by our actions..

no non-christian will not care who u r..

d world goes round too fast..

they are too indulged in their own lives..

they see ur outwardness..

and when Christians get too indulged in our life..

there is a hokkien phrase..

CHAM LOR

so if our outwardness is contradicting the Word,

den wad is our testimony?

i m being convicted by writing this as well..

im not more holy den anyone..

i think i've been in deeper sin den my non-Christians b4..

but i know Christ has forgiven me..

my dear friend,

i respect u..

i alwayz have..

and im saying this out of kindness..

hope u understand the intention of my heart..

im not saying im a greater christian den u..

but i just want u to knw..

that i feel dat swearing less

is defintely a better testimony..

and as i talk the talk

im ganna walk the walk..

im not gonna say things like

Wad the crap

or

freaking <verb>

anymore

i refuse to poke my own shield with my own spear..

God help me..

im a great sinner..

so from now..

so dat i rmb

ALL THE SWEARING GOTTA STOP!!

i knw itz hard..

but

as 2 Corinthians 5:17 says..

If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation

Behold, the old has pass away and the new has come..

Amen to the grace of God
 

signing off,

marcusDS