There is no clinical theology of the tongue for the believing community.  The theology of the tongue is neglected or allowed to drift by because too many within the community would have to change their deeply superficial outward facades.  We, however, are mandated by the Word of God to understand the cosmology of the tongue.  It is a dangerous and destructive evil member of our bodies.  It alone has the power to create terrible inner pollution.

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.

One of the most frightening realities of the Faith is that there are believing one who allow the Word fo God to drift by in their lives.  They become passive and a benign contempt for the Word of God emerges in their lives.  It is a very dangerous estate to refuse to hear the Word of God.  We are accountable to God for our actions.  It is imperative that we are spiritually alert to what God wants us to hear.

The cross of Jesus is not merely a symbol it is the place of new life.  Jesus died for all mankind because God is not willing that any should perish.  Those who believe in Jesus and in his finished work on the cross are saved, and receive eternal life.  After salvation the new believer must undergo discipleship.  Discipleship begans when one takes up the cross to follow Jesus.  There is no other way to become a disciple of Jesus.

God has given His Son Jesus for our salvation.  After we are saved we must grow uo in the Faith once for all given to the Saints.  We have a new life and a new way of being because of our salvation.  Old things have passed away, and all things have become new in Christ.  We should make it our aim to grow in Grace and in the knowledge of Jesus.

We are saved by Grace through faith in the person of Jesus Christ.  There is no other name under heaven given among men whereby we might be saved.  With the heart man believes unto righteousness.  For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.  If you would be set free free from the ravages of sin believe in Jesus.

God has forgiven us through the finished work of Jesus.  This is a wonderful truth for every believer.  God has forgiven us the penalty of sin.  God forgives us when we as believers occasionally sin against him.  We have been cleansed out from sin through the shed blood of Jesus.  This no mere intellectual doctrine it is a living reality for us.  Jesus has set us free.  Therefore when others sin against us we are to set them free too.

Life and death are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat the fruit thereof.  No believer is to use the tongue in an inappropriate manner.  As believing ones we are to realise that sins of the tongue are both self-destructive and other-destructive.  Our fellowship with God is also compromised when we sin with our tongues. According to the Word of God  the tongue is a fire and a world of iniquity.

Anger is a terrible prison.  It can destroy one's capacity for life.  Anger can isolate and create barriers in relationships.  Anger is a demand, and the source of anger is pride.  God has given us his Son Jesus who bore our sins on the tree.  When you find it difficult to manage your anger you may go to Jesus and talk to Him about what anger is doing to your life.  You dont have to continue to let anger destroy your life.

We are the called-out ones.  We are members of the Body of Christ.  We are justified by faith in Christ.  Theses are marvelous positional truths, and yet we are allowed by God to be partakers of the Sufferings of Christ.  This is a very important doctrine that has been neglected in the post-modern church.  The trails that we face come into our lives through the permissive will of God.  God allows suffering in our lives because we grow thereby.  Through suffering we learn to depend on God.