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Most of us have experienced at some level the painful sting of a gossip session that was about you. Suddenly, people that you were just friends with a couple of hours earlier have grown cold and distant.
From the pain in the heart of teenager who has been told the gossip that is going around about them, to the painful sting of a person who had so much gossip spoken about them that their position of service was changed, or the ministry leader who is left broken over gossip that has destroyed their reputation.
What is Gossip?
If we are going to speak about gossip, we should probably take a little bit of time to define gossip.
Proverbs 18:6–8 (NASB95) – 6 A fool’s lips bring strife, And his mouth calls for blows. 7 A fool’s mouth is his ruin, And his lips are the snare of his soul. 8 The words of a whisperer are like dainty morsels, And they go down into the innermost parts of the body.
In the book of Proverbs, we see the word whisperer used to describe this
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