GOSSIP AND THE CHURCH

Gossiping is not unusual in communities like the market, classroom, salon etc, simply because human beings are the unit of this communities. Something unfortunate happens to a person today and before you know it the whole community is talking about it up to the extent that the person with issue senses that "his or her matter don cast".

But can we avoid gossiping in the church as much as possible. The church is supposed to be a safe place where people come to find spiritual healing. It is unfair that some people would cone with one challenge or the other and the same community of believers that are supposed to help them out would be the same one talking ill about them and destroying their reputation. If your motive is not to help or find solution then there is probably no need for you to share another person's buisness. You might intentionally or unintentionally hear someone issue in your church, whatever the case is, try to keep it to yourself.

If you cannot help them, pray for them in your secret place and if you have refused to pray for them, at least don't gossip about them.

If you have a gossiping problem (some people actually do and it is usually the person you least expect). There is nothing God cannot do, find your deliverance in him.

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