Integrity

Integrity is doing the right thing even when no one is watching. In a marketplace that often rewards compromise, how does the believer maintain wholeness of character?

The word integrity comes from the same root as "integer" — a whole number. Integrity means wholeness: being the same person in the boardroom, the back office, and the bedroom. There is no split between your Sunday self and your Monday self.

This is the challenge and the calling of the marketplace believer. To maintain integrity is to resist the erosion of character that comes from slow compromises, half-truths, and convenient silences. It requires the daily renewal of the mind that Paul speaks of in Romans 12:2.