We've all seen them and met them. Christians who want to avail themselves of the good reputation of Jesus, but then use His name to do substandard, shoddy and lazy work. My first experience was a man who had a fish on his landscaping business card and charged me $ 500 to do what I now know to be about a $ 50 job. If that's not bad enough, the poor quality of his work caused me to call him back to fix it, but he never returned my calls. Then there was the Christian plumbing contractor who installed sub-standard toilets in our church restrooms. After numerous malfunctions, instead of repairing them, he told us we were flushing too hard. Finally, as a pastor, I supervised two church members we hired to be janitor/handyman. One of them was always "sick" when we had a special event to set up for, and always too wimpy to handle his responsibilities himself. The other spent most of his day chatting with passers-by and I actually caught him sleeping on the job. Every effort to get these two to straighten out resulted in argument, which they also did with each other all the time. Finally, I resolved to never hire someone that made an issue of being a Christian. The Bible says a lazy worker is a thief. It says to do your best work, to not cheat, to go the extra mile, to work as if you're working for God. Anyone who does those things will have people praising him from one end of town to the other. Any employee who works like this will be promoted in record time. Any businessman who does this will, in very little time, have so much referral business, he can't do it all. The point is, you don't have to say you're a Christian to get the job...all you have to do is work like one. "They will see your good works and praise your Father who is in heaven." The other point is, anyone who feels he has to say he's a Christian to get the job will, most likely, not work like one.
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