Adventures in Youth Ministry

How to Train Your Mouth!

August 12, 2010

So around our youth group, we have a sometimes controversial rule:

If filth comes out of your mouth, we make you do 10 pushups per filthy word.

It’s been a great rule so far. A lot of the time, we hear “why do we have to do that anyway?” Kids are looking for the reason… so….

Here are 10!

1. Ephesians 4:29:  “Don’t 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.” NLT
2. Swearing doesn’t make you sound tough, it makes you sound stupid!
3. Using clean language makes you seem classier
4. Swearing in church is considered an act of disrespect towards God
5. “Profanity is the last refuge of the uncreative”- get creative with your colorful language. One semester at Bible college, we used the word “pants.” It was hilarious!
6. Swearing is not a productive form of problem solving
7. Swearing gets you in trouble
8. You don’t have to censor yourself around people if you use clean language all the time-
9. People will notice you because you are different- seriously!
10. You have influence with other people! Just think, would you want your little bro or sis to copy what comes out of your mouth? If you don’t have a younger sibling, what about that junior high kid at youth that looks up to you? Or you friend’s little bro or sis.

Soooo…

Those are our reasons for dishing out the pushups.

There are a few other things you can do to quit swearing too!

1. Ask your friends/family to point out when you swear- ask your friends you punch you really hard whenever you do (lol!)
2. Start a swear jar in your home and become faithful to it – bonus points if your siblings get the money… you’ll be extra motivated!
3. Put a rubber band on your wrist and snap yourself
4. Come up with your own list of reasons why swearing is stupid and read it daily
5. Hang around people who use clean language (it rubs off on you, really! The opposite is also true- if you hang with people who are very vulgar, you start talking like them)
6. Google the topic and become informed about the subject matter!
7. Do your pushups diligently at neXus if you’re caught!
8. Decide that you want to become a better person and accept responsibility for the words that come out of your mouth
9. Think before you speak
10. Decide that you only want to speak good and uplifting things about yourself and others.

T

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Tags: how to be classy, how to stop swearing, swearing, swearing is stupid

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