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- ARE YOU THE RIGHT PERSON FOR GOD'S WORK?
-
- . A little known firm which specializes in analyzing
- candidates for management positions in various organizations
- recently uncovered some old files which throw some interesting
- light on what some might consider essential skills and abilities
- for Christian service. I quote from the report:
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- To: Jesus Son of Joseph
- Regarding: 12 Candidates for management positions.
-
- Dear sir,
-
- . Thank you for submitting the resumes of the twelve men you
- have picked for positions in your new organization. All of them
- have now taken our battery of tests; and we have not only run the
- results through our computer, but also arranged personal
- interviews for each of them with our psychologist and vocational
- aptitude consultant.
-
- . It is the staff opinion that most of your nominees are
- lacking in background, education and vocational aptitude for the
- type of enterprise you are undertaking. They do not have the team
- concept. We would recommend that you continue your search for
- persons of experience in managerial ability and proven
- capability.
-
- . Simon Peter is emotionally unstable and given to fits of
- temper. Andrew has absolutely no qualities of leadership. The two
- brothers, James and John, place personal interest above company
- loyalty. Thomas demonstrates a questioning attitude that would
- tend to undermine morale. We feel that it is our duty to tell you
- that Matthew has been blacklisted by the Greater Jerusalem Better
- Business Bureau. James, the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddeaus
- definitely have radical leanings, and they both register a high
- score on the manic depressive scale.
-
- . One of the candidates, however, shows great potential. He is
- a man of ability and resourcefulness, meets people well, has a
- keen business mind and has contacts in high places. He is highly
- motivated, ambitious and responsible. We recommend Judas Iscariot
- as your controller and right-hand man.
-
- Sincerely yours,
- Management Consultants Inc.
-
- (And you thought that things had changed a lot over the last 2000
- years.)
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- "If any one serves Me, let him follow me; and where I am, there
- shall My servant also be; If any one serves Me, the Father will
- honor Him." John 12:26
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- From Journal of Irreproducible Results
- Computers for Christ - Chicago
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