SolaSaint
Puritan Board Sophomore
Hi all,
I have a general question about our Christian witness today. According to 2 Cor 6:17 "Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you." is it easier today to spot a Christian brother or sister in society? I'm 51 and when I was a small child and even through my early twenties, people my age were polite in public and hardly never used cuss words in normal conversations, but now in public I hear many who cuss every other word out of their mouths. I just came back from a conference for my job and we were shown a short film that was supposed to be funny. It showed men and women in the work place cussing each other out. Even though it bleeped out the words we all knew what they were saying and everyone was laughing at it except me. I thought it was awful.
Today we see men using fowl language in front of elderly people without a care, and sadly I've seen many women who can say the vilest of words just as a man can. I work in a sales environment and the guys I work with cuss like sailors in front of clients and even talk about immoral activities like they are the norm. I even confront them and get chastised for doing so, for they see no harm in it. Has society changed that much over the last 10-20 years? Is it easier to spot a Christian today, for I hope we don't use language like this and think it normal, and I hope we don't talk of sexual immorality in fun or lightly as if it is no big deal.
I for one believe it is a day now when being a Christian is going to separate one from the world if they hold fast to the doctrines of scripture, and remain unspotted from the world. So do you feel as I do and see this separation of the worldly and the Christian?
I have a general question about our Christian witness today. According to 2 Cor 6:17 "Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you." is it easier today to spot a Christian brother or sister in society? I'm 51 and when I was a small child and even through my early twenties, people my age were polite in public and hardly never used cuss words in normal conversations, but now in public I hear many who cuss every other word out of their mouths. I just came back from a conference for my job and we were shown a short film that was supposed to be funny. It showed men and women in the work place cussing each other out. Even though it bleeped out the words we all knew what they were saying and everyone was laughing at it except me. I thought it was awful.
Today we see men using fowl language in front of elderly people without a care, and sadly I've seen many women who can say the vilest of words just as a man can. I work in a sales environment and the guys I work with cuss like sailors in front of clients and even talk about immoral activities like they are the norm. I even confront them and get chastised for doing so, for they see no harm in it. Has society changed that much over the last 10-20 years? Is it easier to spot a Christian today, for I hope we don't use language like this and think it normal, and I hope we don't talk of sexual immorality in fun or lightly as if it is no big deal.
I for one believe it is a day now when being a Christian is going to separate one from the world if they hold fast to the doctrines of scripture, and remain unspotted from the world. So do you feel as I do and see this separation of the worldly and the Christian?