I deal with gossip on a regular basis because of my position in church work. Sometimes I am even the subject of gossip. If certain people don’t like my decisions or my sermons or sometimes even the way I dress. Instead of talking to me about it, they talk to others! Why?
Gossip is a way we judge others, which really isn’t our job. God is in charge of judging people, not us. Gossip really only ends up creating greed, hate, envy, and murder.
Gossip is also a sign that we are not really active in our faith and in our lives. If you think about it, the busier we are, the less time we have to gossip. We no longer have the time to get wrapped up in someone else’s life. Gossip is bred out of boredom. It may start as a simple conversation about people, and then escalates quickly. The Bible clearly tells us to do more than discuss other people’s lives
“Gossip has a strong manipulative potential that could be used by cheaters to change the reputation of others or even change their own,” write researcher Ralf Sommerfeld of the Max-Plank-Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Germany, and colleagues. “This finding suggests that humans are used to basing their decisions on gossip, rumors, or other spoken information.” Their results appear in the Proceedings of the
So what about you? Have you been gossiped about? How did it make you feel?
1 comment:
I have no doubt that I have been in someone's gossip. If and when I realize it, then my conversations with that person change... by their fruits you shall know them.
Definition by wikipedia:
"Gossip is idle talk or rumor, especially about the personal or private affairs of others.
While gossip forms one of the oldest and (still) the most common means of spreading and sharing facts and views, it also has a reputation for the introduction of errors and other variations into the information thus transmitted."
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