Being ‘Grace-full’ When Personally Slandered
Posted by Pastor Pat on September 23, 2009
“So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.” John 8:36
Perhaps one of the most painful experiences in life occurs when you are personally misrepresented or maliciously attacked through verbal assault. Such things are sourced in either, the world, the flesh or the devil. None of it is any good. It will come through one of two channels either the saved or the unsaved. Both are painful. However to have the attack come from a brother or sister in Christ is self-destructive and bitter cannibalism. Nowhere in the Scripture is such action justified. I would like to answer two questions concerning personal slander. First, what is slander? And second, how are we to respond to slander?
First, what is slander? The English word comes from two Greek words.
The first is our English word “blasphemy.”
And the second is katalalia and means, “To speak against.”
Katalalia is found only twice in the NT (2 Cor. 12:20; 1 Peter 2:1).
