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Tim Ross explains his decision to stop cussing on his podcast, August 10, 2023.<\/span> | Screenshot: YouTube\/TheBasementwithTimRoss<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Preacher Tim Ross has received substantial criticism in recent months for using profanity on his new podcast platform, and although he initially defended his decision to use strong language, he recently announced he will no longer cuss on his public platforms.\u00a0<\/p>\n

At the end of 2022, Ross stepped down from his role as senior pastor at Embassy City Church<\/a> in Irving, Texas, which he started nearly a decade ago because he felt called to go into full-time podcast ministry. His podcast, \u201cThe Basement with Tim Ross,<\/a>\u201d has amassed over 278,000 subscribers but he’s also received pushback for cussing on the podcast from the Church community and his pastor friends, one of whom asked him to look at the part of Ephesians 4:29<\/a>\u00a0that says, “Let everything you say be good and helpful, so that your words will be an encouragement to those who hear them.”<\/p>\n

Ross said many people had sent him Ephesians 4:29 to rebuke his cussing, but he responded by saying that the verse is not about cussing. Instead, it’s Paul “talking about gossiping and lying and backbiting and sowing discord among brethren, which is worse than all the cussing.” He added that his pastor-friend knows the context of the verse, and so when his friend pointed to the second sentence in Ephesians 4:29, he read it and received it for self-correction.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Initially, Ross defended his use of \u201cstrong language\u201d because he said it fit with his \u201cstrong emotions.\u201d However, following a recent discussion with his pastor-friend he had a change of heart and decided to no longer use foul language on his public platforms. He made this decision in part because he continues to be invited to preach at churches and doesn’t want churchgoers to be put on the spot and asked to defend his cussing on his podcast if asked.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cUsing strong language on my public platforms is not worth [my pastor friends] having sideways energy brought their way,\u201d he said in an Instagram Live video<\/a> posted in August. Ross said his church leader friends should not be forced to defend him.<\/p>\n