This post brought to mind a song by the group Acapella called 'Teaching the Truth In Love'

CHORUS:
Are we teaching the truth in love
Telling it like it is
Are we holding pure motives,
Showing that we care
Are we teaching the truth in love

A man came to my Jesus
Telling all that he had done
To fulfill the good commandments
He knew every single one
But Jesus said there's something
That indeed he did lack
The savior told the truth
He didn't hold the message back

He was teaching the truth in love
Telling it like it is
While holding pure motives
And showing that He cared
He was teaching the truth in love

A woman caught in evil and without an alibi
The truth, so very obvious, made no attempt to lie
With all the foes against her how she felt so all alone
Until Jesus asked the people who would throw the first stone

He was teaching the truth in love
Telling it like it is
While holding pure motives
And showing that He cared
He was teaching the truth in love, in love, in love, in love

Sometimes it's hard to know exactly how we are to share
With our Master's words of confidence, directly, do we dare?
Should we water down the message, should we tell them only parts?
Will they see Him in our message, will they see Him in our hearts?

I ask for your added prayers to speak the truth in love during this week. We are visiting my sister-in-law and my nephew and the absence of his father in his life is causing him to chose destructive behaviors. He is only six years old and he came close to being expelled from school. I am praying for boldness to share with them the need for Christ in their lives. Thank you for your posts.

I agree that one of the most common venues for false statements, lies, and deceitful statements to be spoken is at funerals. It seems that Christian men and women, including most ministers, believe it is acceptable to lie at funerals for it seems socially unacceptable to speak anything other than positive things about the deceased.

May you be blessed with peace and understanding in these days.