The Bible says gossip is nothing less than meddling in other people\u2019s business. Jon Zens says: \u2018I have watched friends and families suffer untold pain because of gossip\u2026 the information someone dumps on you without your consent and consent of the person involved. It can be true, partially true, or completely false. It can be motivated by good intentions, but it always<\/i> contains negative information and colours people\u2019s perceptions of someone unjustly. The person being torn down is out of the loop because talebearers usually avoid speaking directly to the one they are demeaning.\u2019 <\/p>\n
Fred Gage said, \u2018The Christian army is the only one that shoots and buries its wounded.\u2019 So set the standard for your own life by evaluating people based on your<\/i> experience with them, not on what somebody else says. Second-hand information is notoriously unreliable and misleading, and it violates Christ\u2019s command to \u2018treat people the same way you want them to treat you.\u2019<\/i> (Matthew\u00a07:12\u00a0NASB) When you have been hurt by tittle-tattle, you can relate to the wisdom of those words. <\/p>\n
Rumours and innuendos may seem innocent and come to you subtly, but even if someone isn\u2019t operating in malice, their motive is irrelevant. Spreading gossip defies walking in love and looking for the best in others. AW Tozer said, \u2018Never pass anything on that will hurt somebody. \u201cLove covers over a multitude of sins\u201d<\/i> (1\u00a0Peter\u00a04:8\u00a0NIV), and the talebearer has no place in God\u2019s favour. If you know something that would hurt one of God\u2019s children, take it out, bury it and say, \u201cHere lies in peace the story about my brother.\u201d God will take care of it.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Bible says gossip is nothing less than meddling in other people\u2019s business. Jon Zens says: \u2018I have watched friends and families suffer untold pain because of gossip\u2026 the information someone dumps on you without your consent and consent of the person involved. It can be true, partially true, or completely false. It can be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}