Sometimes we wonder why people in business and in the marketplace are not attracted to Christianity. I believe one of the greatest reasons is because all too often, we as followers of Christ, are poor at keeping our word.
We fail in keeping many commitments we make, and this comes in many forms. We get behind in paying our vendors, we fail to deliver our product or service on time, or perhaps we simply decide to not keep our commitment when it becomes inconvenient to do so.
Do you have any thoughts on this?
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Hey Ray - great to see you got the blog up and running. I would like to think that reputable business people would not simply decide to skip out on commitments. That comes down to purely an integrity issue.
Jesus said in Matthew 5 to simply let your Yes be Yes and your No be No. I think we must strive at this simple idea. Many times as business people, especially smaller businesses, we try and say Yes to everyone. We think we need to take on every project and every task because we’re small and we need the work and money. Many times we fall into a trap of taking on way too much than we can realistically handle. This is the case with everyone not just Christians.
When we do decide to say Yes to something we should make sure that we follow through on this commitment. A while back I took on a project that was a bit out of my knowledge base, but I needed the money. I thought I could sub-contract the work and still make some money. The project ended up being a disaster and was grossly behind schedule. The client was upset and I was upset for saying Yes to a project I knew would be tough for me to deliver on. I ended up getting the project delivered and decided not to charge the client for the work because of all of the issues and upset feelings during the project. So in the end, it ended up costing me money, but I did learn a very valuable lesson which I believe was worth every penny.
I know someone who often says "don't trust anyone". My faith and idealism leads me to want to trust people, but I am afraid that that someone has a point these days. It seems as though one's commitment means very little anymore. If it's marriage, an employee agreement, or simply an appointment more and more people, even Christians are determining that it is ok to go back on their word or break a covenant, hence erroding trust in a relationship. And, since relationship are important to God, this harms the body and grieves him greatly!
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