THE GOSPEL VS MY REPUTATION
2Cor 3:2 [No] you yourselves are our letter of recommendation (our credentials), written in your hearts, to be known (perceived, recognized) and read by everybody. Hebrews 12:1 THEREFORE THEN, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses [who have borne testimony to the Truth], let us strip off and throw aside every encumbrance (unnecessary weight) and that sin which so readily (deftly and cleverly) clings to and entangles us, and let us run with patient endurance and steady and active persistence the appointed course of the race that is set before us 1Ti 3:7 Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil. Your reputation is what people in your immediate sphere, environment or community believe and say about you. It's their perceptions of your lifestyle and character. It is largely influenced by what the see you do in the public. They might be somehow ignorant about your private life but...