This is a powerpoint made for Connect: Meaningful Conversations & A Community You Can Trust. It focuses on the power of language and its perceptions cross-culturally. It meant to spawn discussion, and at the end it includes the Biblical Worldview on what language means, how it should be used, and how dangerous it is

1. HOW CAN WORDS BE USED TO IMPACT
ANOTHER PERSON, FOR BETTER OR
FOR WORSE?
Created by Jordan Randles, Andre Burger, and Daniel Drake
Connect: Meaningful Conversations and a Community You Can Trust

2. WHAT MAKES A WORD
POWERFUL AND WHY?
F**k
S**t
D**n
C**t
Jesus C****tB!tch
P***yFa*ot R*tarded
N*gger
N*gga

3. WHY ARE THESE WORDS
CENSORED?
To protect groups who take
offense?
To hold up to
clerical
standards?
“That’s
Gay!”
“She’s a good b!
tch!”
“He’s retarted!”
To appease
society?

4. WORDS MAY BE CENSORED TO
PREVENT PEOPLE FROM BEING
OFFENDED
In that case, what is the purpose of communication
through language?
To Build Up
To Tell the Truth
To Tear Down
To Deceive

5. WHY ARE BAD WORDS
BAD?

6. What is the
Biblical
Worldview?

7. THE POWER OF WORDS
James 3:3-12 Genesis 1:1
For Humans For God
Creatio
n
Destructi
on

8. GOD’S INTENTION FOR
COMMUNICATION

9. ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE
Matthew 12:33-37, “Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and
its fruit will be bad, for a tree is recognized by its fruit. You brood of vipers, how can
you who are evil say anything good? For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of. A
good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and an evil man brings
evil things out of the evil stored up in him. But I tell you that everyone will have to give
account on the day of judgment for every empty word they have spoken. For by your
words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.”
Lesson: The things we look at, listen to, and think about influence our
words and actions. We begin to define ourselves by the outside
influences in our life.
Scripture Reference: Phillipians 4:8-9

10. ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE
Matthew 12:33-37, “Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and
its fruit will be bad, for a tree is recognized by its fruit. You brood of vipers, how can
you who are evil say anything good? For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of. A
good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and an evil man brings
evil things out of the evil stored up in him. But I tell you that everyone will have to give
account on the day of judgment for every empty word they have spoken. For by your
words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.”
Lesson: The things we look at, listen to, and think about influence our
words and actions. We begin to define ourselves by the outside
influences in our life.
Scripture Reference: Phillipians 4:8-9