I was Wrong...

I made a mistake. Players make mistakes, I'm not a smoker. - See more at: http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/wilshere-on-important-point-and-scoring#sthash.Ep5Xy6bS.dpuf

I made a mistake. Players make mistakes, I'm not a smoker. - See more at: http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/wilshere-on-important-point-and-scoring#sthash.Ep5Xy6bS.dpuf

Jack Wilshere: Confessing his wrongs

I was Wrong.. I made a Mistake!

"I made a mistake. Players make mistakes, I'm not a smoker..." this is the confession of Jack Wilshere Arsenal football player that went ahead to celebrate their win against Napoli f.c. with cigerattes in a nite club last weekend. He disappointed a lot of people including his club manager, Arsene Wenger, who vehemently condemn the act "i disagree completely with the behaviour, when you are a football player you are an example and you don't do what damages your health... you can damage your health at home - u can smoke at home, and you can drink at home - and nobody sees it, but when you go out socially you also damage your reputation as an example!"

Diego one of his many unadmitted faults

But Wilshere is quick enough to admit, confess, and repent before its grave consequences arrive.(at least for now he renounced it) unlike people like Diego Amando Maradona who trauncated his career and failed woefully in many thing because of his many unconfessed wrongs.

I made a mistake. Players make mistakes, I'm not a smoker. - See more at: http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/wilshere-on-important-point-and-scoring#sthash.T3WH3E9Y.dpuf

"He is an honest guy and when he is wrong he knows it... " says Wenger later commenting yesterday on the widely reported incident of Jack Wilshere seen smoking after the match with Napoli last week. Earlier Wenger, a disciplinarian and a manger of ideals had seriously condemned the act and vow to talk to his player on being a good role model as a public figure, being a player of such reputable club.

Wilshere realizes his wrong early enough to convince the disciplinarian manger to play him in their next match which was on Sunday, and he score Arsenal's only goal to salvage a point away from home. But for many others it is too late. This calls to my mind the example of Maradona and the man that wrote the book I Was Wrong, Jim Bakker.

James Orsen "Jim" Bakker (born January 2, 1940) is a televangelist, a former Assemblies of God minister and a former host (with his then-wife Tammy Faye Bakker) of The PTL Club, a popular evangelical Christian television program. PTL's fund raising activities between 1984–1987 underwent scrutiny by The Charlotte Observer newspaper, eventually leading to criminal charges against Jim Bakker. From 1984 to 1987, Bakker and his PTL associates sold $1,000 "lifetime memberships," which entitled buyers to a three-night stay annually at a luxury hotel at Heritage USA. According to the prosecution at Bakker's later fraud trial, tens of thousands of memberships had been sold, but only one 500-room hotel was ever completed. Bakker "sold" more "exclusive partnerships" than could be accommodated, while raising more than twice the money needed to build the actual hotel. A good deal of the money went into Heritage USA's operating expenses, and Bakker kept $3.4 million in bonuses for himself. A $279,000 payoff for the silence of Jessica Hahn, a staff secretary at the church, was paid with PTL's funds to Hahn through Bakker associate Roe Messner, who later married Tammy Fay Bakker. Bakker, who apparently made all of the financial decisions for the PTL organization, allegedly kept two sets of books to conceal the accounting irregularities. Reporters from The Charlotte Observer, led by Charles Shepard, investigated and published a series of articles regarding the PTL organization's finances.On March 19, 1987, following the revelation of a payoff to Hahn to keep secret her allegation that Bakker and another minister had raped her, Bakker resigned from PTL. Bakker acknowledges he met Hahn at a hotel room in Clearwater, Florida, but denies raping her. Following Bakker's resignation as PTL head, he was succeeded in late March, 1987, by Jerry Falwell.

Jim: public admission of his wrongs

Now with honesty and frankness, the 48-year-old man sentenced to 45 years in prison on charges related to his PTL/Heritage USA ministry shares the intimate details of his incarceration, his divorce, and the mistakes he made along the way... in his 1996 book, I Was Wrong, he admitted that the first time he actually read the Bible all the way through was while he was in prison, and that it made him realize he had taken certain passages out of context — passages which he had used as "proof texts" to back up his prosperity teachings. He wrote:

The more I studied the Bible, however, I had to admit that the prosperity message did not line up with the tenor of Scripture. My heart was crushed to think that I led so many people astray. I was appalled that I could have been so wrong, and I was deeply grateful that God had not struck me dead as a false prophet!

Don't you think you need to admit your wrongs NOW before its too costly?


Your views are most welcome...

I made a mistake. Players make mistakes, I'm not a smoker. - See more at: http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/wilshere-on-important-point-and-scoring#sthash.T3WH3E9Y.dpuf