Gossip: Casual or unconstrained conversation or reports about other people, typically involving details that are not confirmed as being true. {Google definition}
Gossip: Exaggeration or fabrication of a story, regarding somebody other than the tale bearer, in the absence of this person who is being discussed - for the malicious purpose of demeaning, slandering or tarnishing this person's reputation. {Urban Dicitionary definition}
Gossip has been around since the beginning of time. We know this because there are several verses in the Bible that mention gossip and how we are not suppose to participate in such.
Here are just a couple.
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“Then they would be guilty of breaking their previous pledge. And if they are on the list, they will learn to be lazy and will spend their time gossiping from house to house, meddling in other people’s business and talking about things they shouldn’t. 1 Timothy 5:12-13 New Living Translation
“Their lives became full of every kind of wickedness, sin, greed, hate, envy, murder, quarreling, deception, malicious behavior, and gossip. They are backstabbers, haters of God, insolent, proud, and boastful. They invent new ways of sinning, and they disobey their parents. They refuse to understand, break their promises, are heartless, and have no mercy. They know God’s justice requires that those who do these things deserve to die, yet they do them anyway. Worse yet, they encourage others to do them, too.” Romans 1:29-32 New Living Translation
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“Full of every kind of wickedness”. Wow. Those are powerful words. As I was reading through what is mentioned in Romans 1:29 as wickedness, I quickly thought hate, greed, envy, murder, quarreling, deception, and malicious behavior; “yes, those are horrible things, sinful things, that I definitely do not want to be apart of”. Then I read “gossip” was on this list of wickedness and was kind of surprised. I knew that gossip was “bad”. Who hasn’t been told not to gossip? After all when gossip is involved you get a lot of he said she said, pointing fingers, back stabbing your friends and most of the time gossip involves lies. Now I don’t know about y’all but I don’t want to be involved in this “wickedness” that the Bible talks about.
But wait, how do I not gossip, it’s everywhere? What do I do when my friend sends me a Facebook message, text, email, or hand written note and it’s full of gossip? What do I do when we are sitting around the lunch table at school and Meghan brings up the latest trail of boyfriends that Samantha has? I still want to be friends with these people, what do I say to them when it comes my turn to give my opinion on why Jamie shouldn’t go out with Chris? Well, it’s something that we have to work on. And work on it we will!
Join us as Kayla {my 13 year old} and I work on Advice on Breaking the Gossip Chain.

















