Title: 5 Lessons From Jesus About Handling Worldly Resources
Author: Palitha Jayasooriya
Text: Luke 16
Introduction:
Last week I read about a very wealthy businessman. He was a landowner who rented his estates to other merchants, to do business on his land. Payment was made at the end of a season on the produce and earnings they made from the estate.
This owner had an Operations Manager who possibly had been given comfortable accommodation too. After a while however, this manager began mismanaging the owner's estate and money began to leak out, possibly because of wastage. So at one point, the boss got to know that this was happening and he called the manager up and said, "You know, you better give a report on your management because what's happening is not good". He was also probably given marching orders to step down from his job.
This manager was not skilled to do any other work, not skillful in other areas. So he came up with a plan to survive. You know, survival is a very vital part of life and so he began to look for new business contacts. What he did was, he called up the debtors of the estate owner. In particular, he called an oil merchant and a wheat merchant and he told them to meet him quickly.
When they met, he took their invoices and adjusted the invoices. Now, I'm not exactly sure how he did that. He probably had the authority to do it, or maybe it was just plain cheating. He then created a profitable payback plan for these merchants which I will show in a little while.
When the owner got to hear about this man's scheming, I cannot believe that he was happy. He was nevertheless impressed by what this man had done for his survival, by his cunning. It's not clear whether he got his job back as a result, but the story that I just told you was not taken off a leading business magazine. It was not taken off an economics magazine. Not off a great novel. It was taken off the best seller in the whole world. The story was actually told by ...
Author: Palitha Jayasooriya
Text: Luke 16
Introduction:
Last week I read about a very wealthy businessman. He was a landowner who rented his estates to other merchants, to do business on his land. Payment was made at the end of a season on the produce and earnings they made from the estate.
This owner had an Operations Manager who possibly had been given comfortable accommodation too. After a while however, this manager began mismanaging the owner's estate and money began to leak out, possibly because of wastage. So at one point, the boss got to know that this was happening and he called the manager up and said, "You know, you better give a report on your management because what's happening is not good". He was also probably given marching orders to step down from his job.
This manager was not skilled to do any other work, not skillful in other areas. So he came up with a plan to survive. You know, survival is a very vital part of life and so he began to look for new business contacts. What he did was, he called up the debtors of the estate owner. In particular, he called an oil merchant and a wheat merchant and he told them to meet him quickly.
When they met, he took their invoices and adjusted the invoices. Now, I'm not exactly sure how he did that. He probably had the authority to do it, or maybe it was just plain cheating. He then created a profitable payback plan for these merchants which I will show in a little while.
When the owner got to hear about this man's scheming, I cannot believe that he was happy. He was nevertheless impressed by what this man had done for his survival, by his cunning. It's not clear whether he got his job back as a result, but the story that I just told you was not taken off a leading business magazine. It was not taken off an economics magazine. Not off a great novel. It was taken off the best seller in the whole world. The story was actually told by ...
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