Watch your mouth! (1)
Joshua Engelsma examines the biblical principles of sanctified communication, arguing that maturing as Christians requires learning to communicate effectively and truthfully with one another. The article establishes a foundational definition of communication and addresses common failures in how we speak, setting the stage for practical guidance on proper Christian speech in subsequent articles.
We are all communicators. Already as babies we begin to communicate what we want by pointing, crying, and stammering our first words. As we get older, our ability to communicate becomes more sophisticated, and we spend a large portion of our days talking, texting, and tweeting. While it's true that we are all communicators, it's equally true that we are not very good communicators. To give just a small sampling of our communication errors, we say things that aren't true, we say true things at...
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