Number three: 'I don't want to gossip'

• Is it gossip to listen to or talk about spiritual abuse?

A host reads the article's third response, 'I don't want to gossip,' and the hosts call it a ridiculous, passive dodge — listening to someone's story is not gossip; gossip is the state of your heart when you pass it around. The discussion widens into what actually counts as spiritual abuse: parking-spot and pew skirmishes and petty relationship conflicts versus real trust violations by leadership. One host tells a Vacation Bible School story where removing a temperamental volunteer drew accusations of abuse, and the group settles on trust-given-and-violated as the working definition.