Always Gracious Speech

Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you know how you ought to answer each person. –Colossians 4:6

The Bible has some scary words—Hell, suffering, persecution are a few such words. But the word “always” in the above verse might take the cake. I mean, I’m pretty good at letting my speech be gracious on certain occasions—like at funerals or something. Yep, at a funeral I seldom let ungracious words, coarse joking, or empty talk escape my mouth—I hold it in the way my w...