I Was Wrong

“I was wrong” are often the hardest three words to utter. For people. For groups. For companies. For churches.We will spend countless time, energy, and resources defending our wrong decisions rather than admit, clearly, succinctly, that we were wrong. We will spend more time doing what we know doesn’t work than we will ever spend simply starting over and doing it the right way. Why? Because starting over is an admission that we were wrong the first time.Why does admission and re-do appear more costly than denial? It rarely is, in the end. Because admission and re-do exposes our weakness, our fallibility. They make us publicly vulnerable. And nothing is more terrifying than the thought of public vulnerability!People like us that are unwilling to continue in ways like this know how hard it is to admit, “I was wrong”. But we’re willing to say it. Over and over again. For ourselves. Our group. Our company. Our churches.