Originally Posted by Aquila (Post 690342)

Sure. I wouldn't fault you one bit for using. Me personally, I'd use it sparingly because I tend to accentuate grace and dignity as much as possible in the pulpit, making my points like a gentleman and closing points by allowing the WORD to deliver it's rebuke. I tend to say, "Now church, those aren't my words, that's the Bible." But that's my style. If I felt the unction to use the word Sodomite thought, I'd use it. No problem.

Originally Posted by Aquila (Post 690344)

Praxeas, I was under the impression that you were saying that if we avoid those words we're taking our ques from them. My point, as you can see, is that we shouldn't UNNECESSARILY offend by using unnecessary inflammatory words. We're bound to offend the sinner sometime. But I'd feel much better knowing it was the Word that offended them and not me. Like I said, I fall back with grace and say something like, "You know I love everyone of you, and I'd never say anything to hurt you, but folks, that's Bible." Let the Bible speak. I think it does a better job than we do most of the time anyway.