Everyone Does It? Not Us
Theme of the Week: Rated Trustworthy
Monday, October 6, 2008
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Key Bible Verse: Be careful how you live among your unbelieving neighbors. Even if they accuse you of doing wrong, they will see your honorable behavior, and will believe (1 Peter 2:12). Bonus Reading: Job 31:1-4, 9-12
I have spent my career in the music business. In this world—driven mostly by fear and ego—I want to be remembered as someone with character. I want to deal honestly with people, telling them the truth about our potential business together or why it's not going to happen. I want to deal with employees in a straightforward manner. God is constantly building my character—and yours—through our everyday choices. These determine our course in life, and, ultimately, what will be said about us when we're gone.
In 1994 my company, Warner Alliance, took a stand on a gospel singer who'd had an affair with one of his background singers. We terminated the singer's contract. The local newspaper marveled that a for-profit organization would take a clear-cut moral stand.
All too frequently we hear of another corporate scandal, another doping scandal in sports, another case of plagiarism by a journalist or student—even another instance of a minister stealing sermons off of the internet. As my former pastor observed, "North America continues to need preaching on ethical issues such as this, but what it desperately needs is positive examples."
—Barry Landis in Devotional Ventures
My Response: A Christian whom I've watched raise the integrity bar is ____.
Adapted from Devotional Ventures (Regal, 2006) by permission.
Copyright © 2008 by the author or Christianity Today International/Men of Integrity magazine.
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Please give me the boldness, Lord, to demonstrate Your righteousness where You've placed me.
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