Biblically Defining Sinful, Verbal Abuse, pt2

A few years before graduating to heaven, Dr. Jay Adams praised the biblical counseling resource, THE ABUSIVE WIFE: MINISTERING TO THE CONTENTIOUS WIFE. He said, "It was good to read something that was not repetitive; so much these days is but a rehashing of old material. Dr. David Edgington has tackled a subject that most would fear even to approach with the proverbial ten-foot pole. Indeed, he truly tackles the subject (he has laid his pole aside!). His subject? Shrewish women and what the Bible says about them. Get this book if you do counseling. I doubt if you will be sorry if you do. I know of no other book on the subject. And he does this in a gracious manner while pulling no biblical punches. Get it--learn from it. And do it as well yourself!" Well, in his very first chapter, Doc Edgington addresses 'The Abuser as a Reviler.' He says, "One thing I would like to do at the outset is to shift our thinking to a more precise (and biblical) word than 'abuse' since that term gets tossed around too loosely and it attempts to cover too much ground. It is far too vague since it can cover sexual, physical, verbal, and emotional forms." Join us for our live-stream midweek Bible study as we continue to look at reviling and the verbal aspect of mistreatment of others. This study will help prime the pump for this Lord's Day as we get into James 3 that entails using speech as a non-contact weapon against another person, or using the tongue as a weapon for Satan, rather than a witness for the Savior. Tonight's lesson at 6:00 will be "Biblically Defining Sinful Verbal Abuse", pt2.