In Business, Is the Christian Symbol a Sign of Faith Or Merely Bait?
By Gary White The Ledger [Lakeland, FL] The Rev. Bob Hovey knows Scriptures, not shift gates or struts. So when his truck needed a repair a few years ago, Hovey asked a friend to recommend a mechanic who wouldn’t take advantage of his automotive ignorance. Hovey felt reassured even before handing over the keys upon his arrival at Quality Auto & Marine Service in Lakeland. He noticed a familiar and welcome image on the sign posted at the business: a stick figure of a fish, a symbol commonly used to denote Jesus Christ. “There’s no doubt about it, I would use a Christian business owner,” said Hovey, pastor at Shepherd Road Presbyterian Church in Lakeland. “It means you can trust them, or should mean that can trust them, to do you right and be fair and honest and do excellent work.” Hovey said that’s the case with Ray Velez, owner of Quality Auto & Marine, to whom he also entrusts his boat. And while Hovey found Velez’s avowedly Christian business by accident, he knows it’s easy to seek o
