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Rebuilding Your Reputation: Part I

We all make mistakes, and sometimes we make big ones. In business, when you make a big mistake, your employees, customers, suppliers and sometimes even the press learn and share your mistakes with others.

It’s those mistakes that help us learn and become even better, even as the fallout lingers, sometimes for years. Rebuilding your reputation isn’t easy. It takes time and consistent effort.

Saul, the persecutor of Christians, became Paul, the Christian evangelist, by humbly confessing his mistakes, doing the hard work of rebuilding trust and finding an advocate.

In Acts 9:22 we read, "But Saul increased all the more in strength, and confounded the Jews who lived in Damascus by proving that Jesus was the Christ." 

In this Bible reading plan, we will learn from Paul’s three steps to rebuilding a reputation.

Questions for Reflection:  

• Which do you believe are more damaging to your reputation, small mistakes made over a period of time and never addressed, or a big mistake that blows up in your face?  
• Should we address all mistakes, big or small, the same way?  
• Can you think of another Bible character who made a big mistake, restored his reputation, but still suffered from fall out? What does this tell you about how God looks upon our mistakes?