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- INS: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
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- 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.)
-
- "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
-
- From Journal of Irreproducible Results
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- Computers for Christ - Chicago
-