The tongue is a small member and yet it has great power.  It has the power to either hurt or heal.  It has the power to either bless or curse.  The tongue has the power of life or death.   Unfortunately, critical studies on the power of the tongue are sorely lacking in western theology.  The psychopathology of the tongue and its fruits are not studied.  Instead the focus is on winsome language the neither builds up or heals.  We need a theology of the tongue that will inform in lives in a powerful manner.