No, there is no such thing as the business world, on one hand, and then the world of Christianity on the other.
God's Nonnegotiable Requirement For My Business
Ephesians 6:5-9 & Colossians 3:22-4:1
Pastor Kerry Kinchen, Bridgeway Bible Church
Please turn to Ephesians 6 in your Bibles. Mark it, and then find Colossians 3. We are going to be learning from Ephesians 6:5-9, and Colossians 3:22 to 4:1. We have been working through Ephesians in our verse to verse sermon expositions. At times we have gone over to the parallel epistle of Colossians to dig out some extra insights. I will primarlily be using the New American Standard Bible. As you are turning to those passages, I want to bring something to our attention that is of particular interest to most of us. It holds the interest of the majority of people. Some people love it. Some people are obsessed with it. Others hate it. There are people who are oppressed in it, whether they hate it or not. What I am talking about is
work.
I'm not talking about mowing your lawn. I'm not talking about washing the dishes after you eat, or anything like that. I am talking about working in the respect that you are making a living from what you do as that which is your work. It is also called our business. Some people love it--others hate it, but they do their business because it is necessary.
One man who loved to work, worked for Andrew Carnegie as his top executive in Carnagie's company. The man's name was Charles Schwab. The year was 1901. Back then, a million dollars was like multiplied millions of dollars today. What happened was that when US Steel Corporation took over Carnegie's company, it also contracted to pay Charles Schwab the astonishing minimum salary of 1 million dollars. We need to keep in mind that the highest salary on record during the time, outside of Carnegie's company, was $100,000. 1 million dollars was virtually unheard of, and equally unbelievable. Over a hundred years later, such a salary is still seldom heard of today. Most people today still think a million dollar a year salary is somewhat unbelievable--especially multiplied millions of dollars a year. Back then, someone else thought this kind of salary was unheard of. JP Morgan of US Steel was shocked about this unbelievable payment situation that he had gotten himself into. Unable to rest with such a large sum in contract, Morgan felt it was necessary to meet with Schwab to discuss the huge pay. When Morgan met with Scwab, he showed Scwab the contract and hesitatingly asked what could be done about it. Schwab said,"This" as he took the contract and tore it up into little pieces. That same contract had paid Schwab $1,300,000 the year before. Later Schwab said in an interview with Forbes magazing,
I didn't care what salary they paid me. I was not animated by money motives. I believed in what I was trying to do and I wanted to see it brought about. I cancelled that contract without a moment's hesitation. Why do I work? I work for just the pleasure I find in work; the satisfaction there is in developing things, in creating. Also, the associations business begets. The person who does not work for the love of work, but only for money, is not likely to make money nor to find much fun in life. (1)
Obviously Charles Schwab loved to work for just the pleasure that he found in work. But, not everyone likes to work for the love of work. In fact there are many people, who, because of certain individuals in their work, don't have much fun in life. One reason is because many people in the work force, find themselves under the thumb of an undesirable employer. They don't like to work, because they don't like the management above them. But sometimes it is a two way street. There are many authorities that can't stand their employees, and so what happens is that they treat them accordingly. In other words, there are certain employers in this world who find their fun, comfort--even unrestrained release of their worst characteristics simply because they are the boss, in treating their employees in inconsiderate, and even demeaning ways. In our passage this morning, Paul is going to address some things that have important principles for both business employees, and for business authorities. Please read our texts along with me at this time, starting with Ephesians 6:5,
"Slaves, be obedient to those who are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, as to Christ; 6 not by way of eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart. 7 With good will render service, as to the Lord, and not to men, 8 knowing that whatever good thing each one does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether slave or free. And masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with Him." Ephesians 6:5-9
Now from Colossians 3, starting in 22,
13 "22 Slaves, in all things obey those who are your masters on earth, not with external service, as those who merely please men, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord. 23 Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men, 24 knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance. It is the Lord Christ whom you serve. 25 For he who does wrong will receive the consequences of the wrong which he has done, and that without partiality. 1 Masters, grant to your slaves justice and fairness, knowing that you too have a Master in heaven." Colossians 3:22-4:1
Please prepare your heart to go verse to verse with me in the sacred preaching of God's word this morning, in this sermon titled,
"God's Nonnegotiable Requirement For My Business"
[prayer]
God has given us many rules for living. He has recorded them in the Bible for us to reference and practice. He has given us good business principles throughout His word that He expects us to follow. Keeping this in mind, we have two sections of Scripture that will speak to us this morning, but the question we want to ask is how we are able to draw God's non-negotiable requirement for our business out of the texts we are studying. Starting out, we recognize that in Paul's context of ancient Roman Asia, Paul is addressing slaves. Also, Paul is addressing the Masters of slaves. Bringing this to modern day America for application is not practical if we are looking for the slave-master relationship that Paul is addressing. But, there are eternal spiritual principles here in these passages that are just as much a part of the substance of what Paul is talking about, as the contextual direction he first focused upon when writing them by inspiration of the Spirit. The principle I am talking about is the principle of how authorities are to treat people who work under them in business, and further, how those who work under authorities in business are to treat those same authorities. We will get to the principle of God's non-negotiable requirement for our business as we work through these passages. In the meantime, as we proceed, the first thing we see that Paul says is,
"5 Slaves, be obedient to those who are your masters according to the flesh," Ephesians 6:5
"22 Slaves, in all things obey those who are your masters on earth," Colossians 3:22
There are two things I want to immediatly draw our attention to in Paul's address in both Ephesians and Colossians. One is the very important fact that Paul addresses slaves in the church. In that time and culture, slaves were considered chatel property. As such, they were considered to be inferiors. Many of the slaves back then were actually smarter, and even more educated than their masters, but it didn't matter. Their status was that they were inferior, and so that is the way people thought of them. But here Paul addresses slaves as if they have intrinsic human value and importance. It is as if he looks over at them in the fellowship, and says,
Hello my dear brothers who are slaves. We are all equals as Christians. I have something to say to you now in this area of submission.
Today in America, we aren't going to completely understand why this is so important unless we understand that Paul sees slaves as being just as important to God, in Christ, (as the body of Christ) as God sees the Christian masters who own them. In fact Paul addresses this point to the churches in Galatia by explaining the universal importance of each member of the body when He says,
"There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus." Galatians 3:28
In this list, the Jews were racists who looked down on Greeks; the free men looked down on slaves, and since both the Greco Roman world, and the Israelite community were patriarchal, women were looked down upon by men. But, in Christ, God looks down, and into the hearts of all of His elect as having equal value and importance because all of His children are one in Christ. What this means is that, no matter who you are, God sees your importance as just as important as any other Christian. In fact, God sees famous people, like actors, and politicians, and even that high powered boss, as being inferiors to you if those people are not saved. On the other hand, if any of those people are saved, God sees you as being just as famous, important, and valuable as any of them. This is an imporant point for all Christians to get early on in their discipleship from their Father in heaven. Your value is the value of Christ's crucifixion. Christ purchased you on the cross, and there was only one payment given. It was His own important life, for your life that is important enough to Him to pay such a high price. Further, your value is in His resurrection. In His resurrection, He has given you the life of Christ through His Spirit. You, my dear brothers and sisters, have this wonderful value. Slaves who are saved, also have this wonderful value. So that is the first thing we need to recognize. God thinks slaves are important.
Secondly, when we look at the opening of this passage, we see that the masters that must be obeyed, are described in a certain manner. In Ephesians, they,
"... are your masters according to the flesh," Ephesians 6:5
In Colossians, they are
"... those who are your masters on earth," Colossians 3:22
There is a reason why Paul says this. The reason is because all Christians, whether Jew or Greek, slave or free, male or female, employees or employers, famous or not--all have the same Master in heaven, who is the God of the universe, and all have the same Lord over the church, which is Christ Jesus. So, Paul makes this clarification in quick, simple terms. It is simple, but Paul is making a lengthy, deep, and eternal point. Namely, all of us need to recognize that whenever we are talking about royalty, or government systems, leaders, employers, slave owners, or whatever, such people are merely temporary earthly concerns that are always underneath the big eternal concern of the Master according to the Spirit in the heavenlies. In the meantime, there is a way that slaves must treat those who are their temporary authorities according to the flesh.
This leads us to consider the third thing of importance in all of this. I am talking about the big how do I do it? thing. The big how do I do it? thing, is God's big nonnegotiable requirement for my business. What is it? Paul says to obey,
"with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, as to Christ; 6 not by way of eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart. 7 With good will render service, as to the Lord, and not to men," Ephesians 6:5-7
Paul says to obey,
"22 ... not with external service, as those who merely please men, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord. 23 Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men," Colossians 3:22-23
This is it. This is the principle that expresses the foundation of God's nonnegotiable requirement. Basically, servants are to obey, but it is sincere obedience that it is in the realm of fear and trembling. It is not fear and tembling of a strong earthly leader--of a boss, or the one who writes the checks. It is fear and trembling of our strong heavenly leader. It is not the insincere obedience of contempt, hatred, and subtle agression toward management we don't like. It is not obedience merely to be seen so that you can get extra points with the boss. It is not obedience for the sole purpose of getting a raise, or for getting a promotion. All those things are men pleaser things. The kind of obedience that God is dictating as the foundation of His nonnegotiable requirement, is sincerity from your heart. It doesn't matter that your boss's heart is not right. What matters is whether your heart is right, or not. If your heart is not right, then you are not right with God's nonnegotiable. But, the problem is that slaves, servants, employees, workers, or whatever you want to call them--any of us--find it very hard to be sincere from the heart when it comes to someone that we do not respect, honor, and adore. The heart does not want to go there. There might be a frustrated heart. The person may have a prideful heart. They may have an arrogant heart. They may even have a wounded heart. After all bosses can be mean and hurtful. And so, day in and day out, workers face the authorities in their business world and they have nothing but contempt, hatred, and subtle agression, and so out of the self oriented necessity of making a living, what do they do? They merely obey to get by. Is that you? Do you just go into survival mode from a heart that doesn't care about anything but pulling through? The actions may be man pleasing actions, but they are not actions that are sincerely coming from within you according to real respect, honor, and adoration. But this is the problem that Paul is preaching against. Ask yourself--(you who are an employee who is accountable in your business to others); Do you seek to obey your management because of heart felt respect, honor, and adoration? Many of us here, in complete exposed honesty, must say, 'No, I don't obey out of the heart of respect, honor, and adoration for the management over me." So then, the big important question is,
How can we achieve this imperative?
It is required. God wants it. But, it seems like your heart won't do it. Well, first of all, you can not do it in your own power. It must be achieved by the power of Christ, and then from the power of Christ, God's nonnegotiable requirement for your business can be achieved, which is the fourth thing we must consider.
The Fourth thing is the principle I have been talking about all along. What is God's nonnegotiable requirement for your business? It is simple. It is worded in so many ways. It is worded this way;
"Whether, then, you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God." 1 Corinthians 10:31
But it is stated in our passage in such a way as not focusing as much on obeying earthly masters, but, rather upon,
"... in the sincerity of your heart, as to Christ; 6 ... as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart. 7 With good will render service, as to the Lord, and not to men," Ephesians 6:5-7
It is the heart focus of,
"22 ... not ... as those who merely please men, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord. 23 Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men," Colossians 3:22-23
The great principle this morning for all of us to glean here is that God's nonnegotiable requirement for your business is that you work as if you are literally working for Jesus Christ Himself.
In fact, did you catch what we are not supposed to do? He says, "not to men." He says, "rather than for men." So, you see, you are in disobedience to God if you are rendering service, as to men, and whatever you do, you are doing your work heartily, as for men, rather than as for the Lord. The world isn't teaching us this. This is a huge pardigm shift. You see folks, the only way we are going to be consistent in our Christian walk in all areas of life, on God's terms, is when we get off the focus of ourselves, where we are motivated by selfish ambitions in the work place, and where we are focused upon the undesirability of the management above us, and we get off of focusing on the face of our boss, and we turn our attention to the face of our eternal Master, who is our Lord who commands us to do whatever we do, whether rendering service, working, being faithful with company time, being the best I can be no matter what happens, by doing it all as for the Lord rather than for men. What this means is that when we look at our boss, instead of seeing his, or her disheartening face, God wants us to see the smiling face of His Son standing in the forefront between our eyes and our bosses dreadful scoul. This is not some neat Bible trick that someone writes about in a book to get employees to perform better on the job, or to help business relationships. I didn't come up with this as a trick to help you get through your work day. Listen folks, this is the only way to acieve God's nonnegotiable, because this is the God's principle behind God's nonnegotiable. Let me reapeat our job description once again,
A) Obey in the sincerity of your heart, as to Christ.
B) As slaves of Christ, do the will of God from your heart.
C) With good will render service, as to the Lord, and not to men.
D) Do not work as those who merely please men, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord.
And if the job description isn't clear as to how far you go in doing this,
then read E)
E) is that whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men.
"Whatever you do" covers a lot of ground doesn't it?
This leads us to the fifth point, which is the next thing Paul says about God's nonnegotiable requirement for your business. It has to do with banking on the profit from the only business practice that absolutely gurantees eternal rewards for what you do. You see, there is no guarantee that you will get recognized by people for your talents. There is no guarantee that you will be rewarded for your achievements that you have brought to business. Instead of a raise, you may get fired. Instead of a pat on the head, a slave could have gotten beaten. This is the way it is in this cursed world. Folks, there are no guarantees. But with the blessed realm of the heavenlies, Paul goes on to explain the guaranteed eternal dividends that come from God. He says in Ephesians,
"8 knowing that whatever good thing each one does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether slave or free." Ephesians 6:8
And he says in Colossians,
"24 knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance. It is the Lord Christ whom you serve. 25 For he who does wrong will receive the consequences of the wrong which he has done, and that without partiality."
All of God's elect are saved by grace. It is completely according to His unmerited favor that God saves anyone. In my fifth point here, there is an extension of this grace. It goes into what we actually do while we are walking in our salvation. It has to do with eternal rewards. They are eternal rewards that we find mentioned in various places in the Bible to appear as if they are based upon what we do while we walk in our salvation. They are real; God ordains them, and at the same time, we earn them. Sometimes the whole operation of Biblical rewards is difficult for us to understand. Grace in salvation is our great privilege. Grace is ordained by God, but we do not earn grace. God rewards Christians, in His grace. The New Testament writers occassionally speak about the rewards, so we must recognize the whole process as being according to God's sovereign grace in concurrence with His sovereignty in our actions. The important key for us to recognize in the process is that the various scriptures that record explanations of rewards are talking about reaping the eternal fruits in respect to the Christians service (ministry) that Christians accomplish in their lives. This is what Paul explains in 2 Corinthians;
"9 Therefore we ...'
[he is talking about the apostolic band according to the context of the previous chapters.]
"... also have as our ambition, whether at home ..."
[meaning in this present body]
"... or absent, ..."
[from this present body]
"... to be pleasing to Him. 10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad." 2 Corinthians 5:9-10
There is an eternal recompense for our Christian service we do now, and so what Paul is doing here, by the Spirit, is that he is not out to condemn slaves or free people, or any Christian for that matter. He certainly explains the fact that we will all receive the consequences of both right and wrong. But, what Paul is doing is building us up concerning whatever good things we do as unto the Lord whom we serve, and so the urging is to repent from any other course and seek to do what is good and right in the face of our Lord. Both the slave is a minister, and the master is a minister. This leads us to the sixth point to gleen from this passage.
The sixth point is that Paul is not only talking to slaves. Paul is talking to both slave and free. This is a huge point, because now we are really getting down to the universal principle of equality of all Christians, where not only does God not show partiality, but where we are all in the same boat concerning how we are supposed to think, and act. Notice Ephesians 6:8 again,
"8 knowing that whatever good thing each one does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether slave or free." Ephesians 6:8
Notice that Paul says, "or free." Paul is referencing God's even playing field in the business of life. His nonnegotiables apply to both the Christian employee, and also to the boss. In other words, nobody gets off the hook. Finishing up with the rest of the flow of Paul's thought, we see Paul hitting this point really hard, as he makes the stark shift to talking straight to Christian slave owners, saying,
"And masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with Him. Ephesians 6
"1 Masters, grant to your slaves justice and fairness, knowing that you too have a Master in heaven." Colossians 3:22-4:1
So, when Paul says for masters to do the same thing to slaves, Paul does not mean that masters are to switch roles and abandon their authority, and suddenly start obeying their slaves. Further Paul is not trying to be an abolishinist. Slavery was the acceptable system of the day; it had been for thousands of years. There were many reason for slavery. There was slavery because of debt. There was slavery because of being defeated in war. There was generational slavery where one would be born into slavery. This is the way things were in Roman society. Paul neither condemns nor promotes slavery. Just as slavery was legal, there were legal ways available at the time for slaves to attain freedom. Paul says,
"Were you called while a slave? Do not worry about it; but if you are able also to become free, rather do that," 1 Corinthians 7:21
Otherwise, Paul was not some kind of liberation theologian, who was trying to get rid of the slavery system of the Roman empire. Paul was concerned with something that transcends the system of slavery. Paul was concerned with submission to authorities as a Christian who did so as if submitting to Jesus Christ Himself. When Paul says for masters to do the same things to slaves, what Paul means is what he said in verse 8,
"8 knowing that whatever good thing each one does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether slave or free." Ephesians 6:8
Paul is talking about doing good things to slaves no matter how much the world says that slaves are inferior; no matter how much they make you jealous; no matter how much you don't like the way they look; no matter how much you despise them; leaders need to treat those under them in such a way that the leader is serving Christ, knowing that whatever good things the leader does to those who are under him, he will receive back from His own Lord. Again in the other passage, in Colossians,
"24 knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance. It is the Lord Christ whom you serve. 25 For he who does wrong will receive the consequences of the wrong which he has done, and that without partiality."
Any and all Christian leaders must recognize that when Paul says to do the same things to them, Paul means that if you do wrong, you will receive the consequences of the wrong that you have done, and it doesn't matter how much authority you have now. It doesn't matter how many figures you have in your income. God will pay you without partiality. We are all on God's playing field and He has us all there on equal footing. You might try to pull rank with God, but God pulls His rank on all of us with His nonnegotiable requirement for our business. In the cultural context, vicious cruelty was rampant among pagan slave owners. According to the law, a slave was on par to a sheep or a goat. You could kill any of your slaves and it would be accepted by society. The temptation, then, would be for Christian slave owners to treat slaves in unfair ways. They could do it not thinking that they were really doing anything wrong. But Paul comes along and explains that Christian slaves, and Christian slave owners are all in the body, as the body of Christ--His special people--His church--actually brothers and sisters. Today there are Christian business leaders who treat their employees little more than robotic objects. They don't consider the body connection at all, and so they act in all kinds of strange unspiritual ways toward Christians who are under their business leadership. Unfortunately, they use their business position to justify their actions. The way they do this is by dismissing bad behavior as something to be justified because, (as is so often wrongly believed) it is in the, so called,
business part of life.
In an attempt to justify such behavior, you can find such people saying,
Well, this is the business world. It operates on different principles.
Or,
I do business the way I do business. You do business the way you do business.
It is an attitude from a life that is darkened by a lie. It is a false philosophy that tries to assert that all the principles of Christian relationships suddenly change because of doing things to make money. God is not impressed with such false distinctions. They are not excuses, and so what happens to the leader who continues to believe the lie, is that He will be judged according to God's business. He will be judged according to God's nonnegotiable requirement. They will reap from the Lord what they sowed under the Lord's nose. Jesus explained to wicked apostate Israelites this same principle of showing no partiality when he warned them of their injustices. We must remember that the Jews prided themselves in the belief that that they were all God's elect people. They thought that in their election, they could do, and act any way they wanted to act; but they were wrong.
I urge all of us here who work for someone in a situation where the leader is the boss over your business, to pray to God for the heart that he desires. Pray for the strength to achieve His nonnegotiable for you in the workplace. The urging is to work, but the urging for us is to work as if we are actually serving the Lord Jesus Christ as our ultimate boss in our jobs. As you do this, check your thoughts and attitudes toward your authorities. Be recognizing that if they are not saved, that you are a witness of Christ as one who serves Him. They are watching you, and what they see is a representative of Christ. They see a follower of Jesus, and so they see a living witness of God's glory that He has sovereignly placed before them. Are you being one of Christ's hard working, noble slaves? Or, are you demonstrating to the world that you are not serving God to the fullest measure? Always ask yourself these quesions. Be sensitive to the Holy Spirit so that you will sow the quality seed that He is urging you to sow. You will reap quality, eternal fruit. It is the truth, and so the reward will come to you. Be patient. Be patient, and pray for those people. Pray for them in relationship to you. Pray as Paul says in 1 Timothy,
"... I urge that entreaties and prayers, petitions and thanksgivings, be made on behalf of all men, for kings and all who are in authority, so that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity." 1 Timothy 2:1-2
Paul says pray for all men who are kings and who are in authority. What Paul means is that Timothy was to pray for what could be considered those whose hearts would never change. Kings and authorities of that time were typically the powers driving the persecution of Christians. It would seem like wicked Roman and Jewish leaders were unchangeable. But that is not what Paul says. Paul says to pray with the kinds of prayer that entreats, and petitions the Lord for things concerning all who are in authority. Pray that those who have leadership over you in the work place, will enable you to lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity. Even if it seems hopeless, pray. The answer may not come like you want it to, but don't give up on them because you think they are unchangeable. So, pray for them in relationship to you, but also pray for them in their relationship to Christ. Pray according to what Paul says next in the same 1 Timothy passage,
"3 This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, 4 who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth." 1 Timothy 2:3-4
In other words, there is no kind of catagory of lofty man that we list as being exempt from God's grace--including Roman kings who hate Christ, Herodian kings who hate Christ, Roman authorities who hate Christ, and Jewish authorities who hate Christ. If they are exempt from God's grace, then it is because of God's sovereign determination. It is not because they are a wicked leader who hates Christ and Christians. Such people are saved all the time by God in His great miracle of changing hearts. Nevertheless, according to the great doctrine of Biblical Election, we know that we can pray for people's salvation because we believe we are praying in concurrence with God in His comprehensive will, where He delights to use His people, by His Spirit, to pray for the elect, so that they will be saved. So, pray for the unsaved then, always knowing that they deserve Hell and eternal seperation from God, but always remember that everyone without Christ deserves this same fate. It does not matter how evil they treat you, you need to pray for them. As you do this, constantly be mindful of the fact that God has not left you nor forsaken you in your business. He loves you. He loves all His children who are leaders of people in business. When you are a leader, and you are tempted to look at Christian employees as being inferiors who are objects, then confess your unbiblical attitude toward your brothers and sisters in Christ. Be graceful, but be fair. If they are not doing their job right then correct them. Pray for them that they would be better employees, and better witnesses for Christ. If they need to be let go, you know, fired, for the good of the business, and the good of their own selves, then, in prayer, let them go. Treat your brothers and sisters in the Lord, the way Christ, the great King of Kings, and Lord of lords left you as an example. I end the semon with it,
"... with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves; 4 do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others. 5 Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, 6 who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. 8 Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross." Philippians 2:3-8
In this way, all of us will operate as if we are serving our Lord. Amen.
(1) Bits and Pieces, May, 1991, p. 2
