So your testimony is blown to smithereens.
It might have been temper. It might have been unchecked
desire. Maybe you were seriously provoked. Or maybe you had the bad judgment to get involved with dishonest business partners and let things slide rather than stand up. You look
back on it and say, “How did I miss that?” or “I should’ve known that was over
the line”. It might be something in which you were minimally at fault
but — as they say in politics these days — the optics are terrible.
The point is, you did something no Christian should do, and
it’s gone really, really public.