Saturday, March 26, 2011

Honesty

It would be wonderful if everyone were absolutely honest when they present themselves as a Christian phone company. The truth is, there are only 4 or 5 major phone services in the USA. And, all other phone companies have to use the services of the big boys in order to provide long distance phone services. So, there is no such thing as a phone company which does not use either Sprint, AT&T, Qwest, Verizon or Southern Bell. Christians have a choice: don't use phone services, or use the services of some company that probably supports some cause which we don't agree with. Even our phone services in some way use the services of one or more of the big companies. There are resellers and then the third level is the marketers, like me. So, while you can get better rates through the marketing agents of reseller companies, and probably more of the profit is going to go to support causes you agree with, a portion of the profits is still going to a major telecom corporation. It's like buying groceries. Are you going to starve just because the owner of the store gambles? Where our focus is as followers of Jesus is simple: we have to give a report of how WE used the resources God entrusted to us. And, if the person we buy from is not a good steward, that is between them and God.

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