There’s two different ways you can react when you do something wrong. You can act like you didn’t do anything wrong and say you have no idea what people are talking about. Or you can tell everyone what’s up because you don’t want to lie. I know about the “causing your brethren to stumble” thing comes up quite a bit when talking about the things that Christians should do, but sometimes you gotta keep it real. I actually respect keeping it real more.
What do you think?
I think there is a fine line between doing nothing, and telling everyone. In my case – I tell people who truly want to know what happened…but I do not go around spouting off what exactly went wrong. I think that is what scripture is talking about when it talks about ‘causing a brother to stumble’ – information they didn’t want to hear is just ‘laid on them’ without any want of knowing. On the same token – witholding information from people you are close with can cause them to stumble too…making them form false ideas of who you are / what you really stand for.
I think there is a fine line between doing nothing, and telling everyone. In my case – I tell people who truly want to know what happened…but I do not go around spouting off what exactly went wrong. I think that is what scripture is talking about when it talks about ‘causing a brother to stumble’ – information they didn’t want to hear is just ‘laid on them’ without any want of knowing. On the same token – witholding information from people you are close with can cause them to stumble too…making them form false ideas of who you are / what you really stand for.
You are only as sick as your secrets…
You are only as sick as your secrets…