Finally, it’s a dangerous thing to use slang in an attempt to give the impression that we’re in tune with the contemporary scene. To call the twelve apostles “those guys who followed Jesus” is vulgar if not irreverent. Every vocation has its jargon that serves as a helpful shortcut on the job, but it probably should stay out of the pulpit; and crude street language has no place in a sermon. I once heard an internationally known preacher swear in a seminary chapel pulpit and then ask the president,