For the last few months, I have been attending a church on and off, and I am amazed at the gossip in the church. This church is located in a smaller area. It doesn't have a whole lot of members. But it seems that everyone knows everyone's business and they are very quick to talk about it.

Where I live is a bigger area. In the churches here, there are a lot more people that attend, and it doesn't seem that anyone really knows anything about anyone else.

So being that I have attended this smaller church, and I have family that goes there I am amazed at what I am hearing. Church is supposed to be a place of worship. We aren't here to judge others. Gossip can be very hurtful. Especially, when someone is struggling with their choices in life.

More importantly, when someone attends a church where there is a lot of gossip, it turns people away from Christianity. That's wrong. A non-believer wonders what's so great about being a Christian, when a Christian is talking so badly about others.

Maybe it's not such a problem in a bigger city, but this little small church has problems. Due to these problems, they may never grow into a larger church. It's not the church itself, it's the people that make it up.