Gossip Kills
This week I am preaching the second installment of the Lenten sermon series, "Walls: What Separates Us From God & Each Other?" The basic idea behind this series is that we carry around with us all of the building materials that we could ever need to create barriers between ourselves and God--and between ourselves and others. And we need to let them go. I had to make a decision about the "materials" that I would choose to highlight because we quite literally could spend each Sunday of the year addressing the bricks in our walls and never exhaust the list. So I thought I would identify what I saw as the most prominent "wall building materials" within the Church: Division, Gossip, Grudges & Guilt. This week we're dealing with Gossip. First, let me ask this very important question which will be at the heart of our study: Words kill, and words heal... Which words are we using? I have to confess that this question haunted me a...