Is sharing prayer requests gossip? James 4:11 and Proverbs 16:28 say gossip is destruction — not sharing. Why 'I was just venting' doesn't hold up before God.
Slander and gossip are grave sins the church masks as prayer requests or venting. James 4:11 and Proverbs 16:28 call it what it is: destruction.
James 4:11 KJV“If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.”
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