Yesterday I poked fun at the way the church world responds to all those dirty words. I wanted to take a more serious look at it today.

I work with a woman who has very recently decided to follow Jesus. She attempts to start each morning with a prayer when she wakes up. One day at lunch this woman realized she forgot to pray that morning. In her displeasure with herself she said, “Shit, I forgot to pray this morning.”

This woman was ridiculed about this. Several people used this to make fun of and marginalize her faith over it. She didn’t do anything wrong. It is merely a word. She, however, began to feel bad over it. She felt she had let down God in some way.

Here’s the part of this that bothers me the most. None of the “non-believers” making fun of her actually thought she did anything wrong. They know you won’t find anything in the Bible that teaches against using such words. Their taunts came from the fact that they realize that the vast majority of Christians believe cussing is wrong. So, they labeled her as just another hypocrite for what they viewed as breaking one of her own rules.

Don’t we have enough problems with our image without making sins out of things that aren’t really sins?