Church and Labels; Your Reputation and Business - Continued

Church and Labels; Your Reputation and Business ...Continued

She kindly asks... So what did you hear? I replied; Nothing.

She stayed on the phone a bit longer and then ...I heard something and I am going to report this to the Pastor she replied. That was when I felt apparently she had heard the gossip. I wasn't going to stop her from reporting to the Pastor.

Fast forward few weeks later the Pastor is back and I am summoned from my office one sunny afternoon to meet with the Pastor at the church office. 

At the church office:

After some office rituals I am asked to wait and I will be called when its my turn.

My turn comes...

I open the door into the Pastor's office and some people I have never had interactions with before are seated in a Sanhedrin-like gathering. 

And straight to the matter... 

The Scroll is opened on the SLEEPING matter:

Pastor: Do you know this lady? pointing to the supposed 'SLEPT'

Me: Yes Sir. She is my friend

Pastor: Did you sleep with this woman?

Me: No Sir.

And the door to the Sanhedrin-like gathering was opened for me to leave.

And I went back to the office Just like that.

Days turned to weeks, weeks turned to months and there was no information on the outcome of the Judgement. There was no calling back for apologies nor salvaging the reputation of the exposed.

The case went AWOL!

Apparently or would I say interestingly the case went AWOL for very 'important reasons'. It went AWOL because a Sanhedrin Member was on a Hamster Wheel chase of my Friend who will not stoop to be conquered. 

Surprisingly, The Sanhedrin Member who loved my friend that much was Jealous I had a friendship with the woman he has always wanted! And just as Joseph Addison says “Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.''.

On that note the Sanhedrin member went to work... He hired the best connivance in another well profiled partner who would have loved to love me if also I would have stooped to be conquered.

And so they went to work.

Years after the harm was done in church... The scroll opened in church... Judgement denied in church... Reputation smeared beyond the Church... Our lives and businesses have transcended that space and gathering in time.

The Holy Book says in Ephesians 5:16...So watch your step. Use your head. Make the most of every chance you get. These are desperate times! 

They can gather to smear your business repute... Its desperate times for them

Church and Labels; Your Reputation and Business

MisLabels - Individual Reputational Risks

Part 1...

Early Sunday morning worship - House on the Rock, Abuja.

I get to church early enough to help set the atmosphere for a great worship experience. I Walk past the main entrance to the church as everyone is set in the busyness of creating the right atmosphere for 'church' consumers. As I walked by just like the song 'Walk on By' by Dionne Warwick two women I can always listen to call me aside and in some subtle motherly voice they quiz me... 'So you slept with her!' ehnn. I was so stunned and my immediate response was ..Who Ma? and the other woman concurrently asked 'why are you smiling?'  And then she goes on to say - there's gossip going around you slept with that girl in the choir.  

In my usual style... I smiled. I have not done such a thing Aunty was my affirmed response.

On that note you have to take this case up said the other Aunt to me, and I replied, Okay yes I will take up the case (but knowing that I did not have time for gossips that go around anywhere, I cannot spend valuable time trying to find mongers of such low life tittle-tattle.) 

I continued in service with my peace of mind.

Monday morning 9-5 rituals; then comes lunch break. Had lunch with some beautiful minds; left for the office and in the elevator I was caught in my own space reminiscing on the talk by the women who accosted me in church from the previous day. The frills of such accusations sets some thought instability in my space. At this point I put a call through to the supposed friend that the mongers had proposed I had slept with teasing her to find out if she has heard the gossip making the rounds in church.

Surprisingly she had no intimation of the gossip and as such I ended our afternoon converse on a great as it was friendship.

Wednesday at the 9-5
♫♫♫♫..There is fire on the mountain... ♫♫ and nobody seems to be on the run..♫♫♫♫ by Asa... Is playing from my workstation and a call comes through simultaneously. The caller ID is my friend in whom an accusation has been laid with me. Hello what's up? I quickly asked and she replied...


To be Continued...