Gossip is such an ugly thing, is it not?
***Gossip is such an ugly thing, is it not?***
I't not gossip, my friend. He is reporting on the condition of a specific geography, not any individual.
As in...
1 Corinthians 5
"It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife."
I don't think you would accuse Paul of gossip.