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Date Posted: 08:26:00 04/05/06 Wed
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Subject: Something to consider about Gossip. "Refusing to listen to Gossip" From The Purpose Driven Life: Click in

Gossip is passing on information when you are neither part of the problem nor part of the solution. You know spreading gossip is wrong, but you should not listen to it, either. Listening to gossip is like accepting stolen property, and it makes you just as guilty of the crime.
When someone begins to gossip to you, have the courage to say, "Please stop. I don't need to know this. Have you talked directly to that person?" People who gossip to you will also gossip about you. They cannot be trusted. If you listen to gossip, God says you are a troublemaker. "Troublemakers listen to troubemakers." "These are the ones who split churches, thinking only of themselves."
It is sad that in God's flock, the greatest wounds usually come from another sheep, not wolves. "Fire goes out from lack of fuel, and tensions dissapear when gossip stops"

I urge all of you to take a humbe look in the mirror and afford yourself the luxury of humility and really think about this.

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