The Chinese Christian leader Watchman Nee devoted a chapter in his book The Normal Christian Worker<\/i> to watching what<\/i> you say and how<\/i> you say it. \u2018Because of unrestrained speech, the usefulness of many Christian workers is seriously curtailed. Instead of being powerful instruments in the Lord\u2019s service, their ministry makes little impact on account of the constant leakage of power through their careless talk.\u2019 <\/p>\n
Paul writes, \u2018Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt.\u2019<\/i> That means when you speak, make sure it\u2019s in good taste. And the look on your face and the tone of your voice can determine whether a person receives or resents what you\u2019re saying. The Living Bible translates Paul\u2019s words this way: \u2018Let your conversation be gracious as well as sensible, for then you will have the right answer for everyone\u2019.<\/i> Again Paul writes, \u2018Don\u2019t use foul or abusive language. Let everything you say be good and helpful, so that your words will be an encouragement to those who hear them.\u2019<\/i> (Ephesians\u00a04:29\u00a0NLT<\/sup>) <\/p>\n So before you speak, check your attitude and ask yourself, \u2018What frame of mind am I in right now?\u2019 And don\u2019t stop with that question. Ask yourself also, \u2018Will what I\u2019m about to say help or hurt, clarify or confuse, make me feel better or the other person feel better?\u2019 Acknowledging his propensity to say the wrong thing, David prayed, \u2018Take control of what I say, O Lord, and guard my lips. Don\u2019t let me drift towards evil.\u2019<\/i> (Psalm\u00a0141:3\u20134\u00a0NLT<\/sup>) <\/p>\n It\u2019s not enough to be talented in life; to succeed, you must speak wisely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Chinese Christian leader Watchman Nee devoted a chapter in his book The Normal Christian Worker to watching what you say and how you say it. \u2018Because of unrestrained speech, the usefulness of many Christian workers is seriously curtailed. Instead of being powerful instruments in the Lord\u2019s service, their ministry makes little impact on account […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}