If your reputation is perfectly intact on every front...

If your reputation is perfectly intact on every front, if you never irritate anyone, if you never make a stir, you might be doing something wrong-or more likely, you're not doing something right. "Woe to you when all men speak well of you, for in the same way their fathers used to treat the false prophets"(Luke 6:26). The Bible has a crystal clear promise: All who live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution"
(2 Tim.3:12). If we never experience persecution, if we never make a single soul angry (as Christ often did), something is probably wrong. ...R. Terry image