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Key Bible Verse: Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother to fall into sin, I will never eat meat again (1 Corinthians 8:13a). Bonus Reading: 1 Timothy 6:9-11

When hotel broker Orv Krieger received a call about a property for sale in Spokane, Washington, he was thrilled. He knew the 140-unit Holiday Inn—minutes from the airport on a forested hillside overlooking the city—was a buy, despite its multi-million-dollar price tag. So Orv bought it himself.

Only one problem. The Inn's restaurant was the big money maker—grossing an average of $10,000 a month. But as a Christian, Orv chose not to run a business subsidized by alcohol sales.

The motel manager argued that if guests couldn't get a drink at the Inn they'd be out the door to a competitor in a flash. He cited statistics that showed the motel couldn't make it without the bar. Orv listened politely—and closed the bar. The manager promptly quit.

Orv remodeled the lobby, replacing the bar area with a cozy coffee shop. In his first five years of business, food sales went up 20 percent, room bookings 30 percent. Still, profits aren't what they could be. If the bar were open, the hotel would be a real money machine. "Beliefs aren't worth much," Orv says with a grin, "if a fella's not ready to live by them."

—Charles Colson in Loving God

• What is one belief you hold to unswervingly?

Thought to Apply: Each man must struggle, lest the moral law become a far-off abstraction utterly separated from his active life.

— JANE ADDAMS (SOCIAL WORKER, 19TH CENTURY)

Credits: Adapted from— Monday: Loving God (Zondervan, 1983)

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