The Noble Act of Creating Jobs (Kevin Grenier)
The following is a guest post from Kevin Grenier . It is a common stereotype that corporations are greedy businesses and that truly noble work is done by serving the poor. Mother Teresa isn’t expected in the board room. She’s out on the street giving food to the homeless. What if we have it all wrong? What if sustaining the poor is the less noble act? Maybe, rather than helping the poor make it another day, the real God-honoring activities are those of the businessmen – those people who provide work to us so that we are not poor, but can earn a living. Granted, business can be used for good or ill, just as anything can. But maybe business has the potential to be used for far greater good than mercy could ever hope for. Maybe a business whose goal is to help those who can’t work to learn how to work is a far nobler task than the soup kitchen. The Bible says that if a man won’t work, we shouldn’t feed him. Most mercy organizations side-step this verse because their ...