Gossip (1 of 3)
Series: Toxic
Craig Smith
James 3:5-10
I. Introduction
Hey, church, I've got some bad news for you: not everything your parents told you was true. Now I'm not talking about deliberate, self-serving lies like ''oh, ice cream trucks only play that music when they're out of ice cream'' which really just means ''I don't want you to have ice cream right now''. No, I'm talking about things they told us because they thought they were helping us...but they're just not true. Here's the top 5 lies my parents passed on to me. Now, hopefully, you're watching this with someone right now, so tell each other how many of these you were told as a child:
5. If you swallow gum, it stays in your stomach for 7 years. No...it doesn't.
4. You have to wait at least 30 minutes after you eat to go swimming. By the way, the 1908 Boy Scouts manual says if you don't wait at least 90 minutes, you'll drown and it will be your fault!
3. If you swallow watermelon seeds, a plant will grow in your stomach.
2. Sitting too close to the TV will ruin your eyes. (most of us spend most of our days way closer to our screens now than we ever did while watching tv as a kid!)
1. Sticks and stones will break your bones, but words can never hurt you.
We usually got told that after someone said something mean to us. And the point was ''it's just words, they don't really matter.'' But it's just not true, is it? Words do matter...they matter a lot. In fact, the wounds inflicted by sticks and stones heal pretty quick, but the word-wounds...those last...sometimes for our whole lives. My guess is that many of us can still remember exactly some hurtful thing that was said to us or about us years or even decades ago. Word-wounds are the worst!
And yet we're pretty flippant with our words, aren't we? We're pretty quick to spew deeply toxic poison out there into the world...and Facebook and Twitter and Instagram have only made it easier. Listen, if you've ever questione ...
Series: Toxic
Craig Smith
James 3:5-10
I. Introduction
Hey, church, I've got some bad news for you: not everything your parents told you was true. Now I'm not talking about deliberate, self-serving lies like ''oh, ice cream trucks only play that music when they're out of ice cream'' which really just means ''I don't want you to have ice cream right now''. No, I'm talking about things they told us because they thought they were helping us...but they're just not true. Here's the top 5 lies my parents passed on to me. Now, hopefully, you're watching this with someone right now, so tell each other how many of these you were told as a child:
5. If you swallow gum, it stays in your stomach for 7 years. No...it doesn't.
4. You have to wait at least 30 minutes after you eat to go swimming. By the way, the 1908 Boy Scouts manual says if you don't wait at least 90 minutes, you'll drown and it will be your fault!
3. If you swallow watermelon seeds, a plant will grow in your stomach.
2. Sitting too close to the TV will ruin your eyes. (most of us spend most of our days way closer to our screens now than we ever did while watching tv as a kid!)
1. Sticks and stones will break your bones, but words can never hurt you.
We usually got told that after someone said something mean to us. And the point was ''it's just words, they don't really matter.'' But it's just not true, is it? Words do matter...they matter a lot. In fact, the wounds inflicted by sticks and stones heal pretty quick, but the word-wounds...those last...sometimes for our whole lives. My guess is that many of us can still remember exactly some hurtful thing that was said to us or about us years or even decades ago. Word-wounds are the worst!
And yet we're pretty flippant with our words, aren't we? We're pretty quick to spew deeply toxic poison out there into the world...and Facebook and Twitter and Instagram have only made it easier. Listen, if you've ever questione ...
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