Ruth 2:11

Ruth 2:11 11 Boaz replied, "I've been told all about what you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband-- how you left your father and mother and your homeland and came to live with a people you did not know before.

Reputations have a tendency to follow us. Even now years after graduating from High School some of the reputations that were gained then still follow me. This is a lesson it would be well for us to remember. The reputation that you get as an individual of faith, has bearing on how you will impact or influence people around you, and your individual reputation will then in turn have an effect on the reputation of the church you are a part of. The passage above from Ruth reminds us that those things we do, the things that we often feel aren’t observed are more often than not the incidents that cause a reputation. How you act toward your family, your friends, your job, or even the stranger in the grocery store will follow you and either set you up for success (physical or spiritual) or failure.