After reading this post by Craig Groeschel, I got to thinking about how much we do this, not just with our churches but with ourselves. A lot of us gauge who we are by what we are not. So often we find ourselves building us up by tearing someone else down.
This is what gossip is all about. You see, it takes the spotlight and pressure off of the person gossiping and puts it on whoever or whatever action it is that "we have an issue over" or we say "that's just my opinion". Seriously. I need to work on a lot of things...I am far from perfect but I am finding it harder and harder when people in the church are meaner and more bitter and just plain nasty to the people inside of the church. We are generally nicer to people that we don't even know than to the people that we are supposed to love! How are we treating our families? What have you said to them that you haven't ever or wouldn't ever say to some stranger at Wal-Mart?
Seriously. Don't be defined by what you are not. Be nice...be kind...love others. Simple stuff...but seemingly hard for most of us.
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