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What is wrong with a bit of juicy #gossip? How fast and how accurately do these stories typically travel? It is no wonder our courts do not allow hearsay testimony. Just look at the telephone game where a group of people sit in a line and a message is whispered by the first person, who then whispers it to the second, and so on until the last person repeats the message out loud to the group. Invariably, the more people there are in the line, the more the message changes through misunderstanding, biases, interpretation, or sometimes just mischievousness. How serious does God take the telling of tales? How much would your communication be curtailed if you were to ask the Lord before you repeated something you heard? Even a new follower or a person seeking to follow Christ can filter their speech if they just apply three simple criteria. This message was delivered in 1985, before the dawn of social media, but it is even more relevant today. To learn more, click on the Gift link on the front Page of findbibletruth.com[/ig_text][/ig_column][/ig_row]