Are You a Watchman or a Gossip?

In this timely reminder, Anton Bosch gives us cause to pause and ask ourselves if our hearts are in the right place when we expose false teachers and their false teachings.

While I don’t consider my blog a full-fledged discernment ministry, I have called out several false teachers and their teachings so I am painfully aware that I need to be doing so in the right spirit.

Here’s an excerpt from the piece Watchman Or Gossip?:

Watchmen who warn about impending danger have an important role throughout the Bible (Ezekiel 3:17, Acts 20:28-31). BUT, there is a huge difference between a watchman and a gossip. A watchman takes no delight in reporting the threat, while the gossip enjoys telling and re-telling the juicy stories of sin and failure. These gossips are just like the godless Athenians who “spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing” (Acts 17:21). Some who style themselves as “defenders of the faith,” take extreme delight in rehearsing the latest error. I have seen the glint in their eye as they play the latest DVD or as they sit around the table seeking to tell of some greater error than the previous speaker. Some rush to the keyboard to publish the latest juicy morsel as quickly and as widely as possible.

Read the full post at Herescope.

HT: Herescope via DefCon.

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