And now the Word of the Lord has spread out from you to others everywhere, far beyond your boundaries, for wherever we go we find people telling us about your remarkable faith in God. We don’t need to tell them about it, for they keep telling us about the wonderful welcome you gave us, and how you turned away from your idols to God so that now the living and true God only is your Master.- 1 Thessalonians 1:8-9

Jack Eckerd, founder of the Eckerd chemist chain, which was the 2nd largest chemist chain in America at the time, became friends with Chuck Colson, founder of Prison Fellowship. He introduced Colson to various influential groups in Florida in an effort to bring about change in the state's prison system.

During their travels together, Chuck had an opportunity to share with Jack his new-found faith in Jesus Christ. He gave some books to Jack, including his own, and eventually prayed with him, to become a Christian. Shortly after Jack happened to be walking down the magazine aisle of one of his stores when he noticed two poronographic magazines on the rack. The presence of those magazines had never bothered him before, but now it did! Jack called the president of his company and told him, 'Take those magazines out of my stores.' The President argued, 'But we make a profit of 3 million dollars a year on those magazines.' Jack insisted, 'Take em out!' And so it was that all such magazines were removed from his seventeen hundred stores in one day. When Chuck Colson asked Jack about his decision, he replied, 'Why else would I give away 3 million dollars? The Lord wouldn't let me off the hook.'

And when you are committed to following Christ and living by the principles of scripture, God won't let you off the hook either. So let it be said of you, what Paul said of the believers in Thessalonica....'Your faith has become known everywhere...how you turned...from idols to serve....God.'