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REAL Corporate Heros?
||February 19, 2008|475 reads
 

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Gene Boecker
February 21, 2008
There are some - a few - not many.
Ian Grant Spong
February 22, 2008
I'm sure there are. I heard of a Christian guy who sold his company and gave millions away to his most faithful, long time former employees. Most of us think that we "deserve" the big incomes and I even have a Pentecostal friend who think that tithing makes him "deserve" more than his employees, and besides, he says, "they wouldn't know what to do" with a bigger income.

I am a little saddened by articles which tell the stories of wealthy Christians who may have developed a large donut or chicken chain, and the dearth of articles telling of Christians who developed a large business which provides an income for thousands of families, and yet the owner lives a self-sacrificial life, rather than one of self-indulgence.
Gene Boecker
February 23, 2008
The one I'm most familiar with is Dave Thomas of Wendy's.  Dave was adopted.  After Wendy's began to take off, he donated much of his personal funds to adoption services and advertising to help find homes for children.  He was quite a guy.  (btw: my wife's brother went to school with the real "Wendy")
Ian Grant Spong
February 25, 2008
That would be the kind of thing I am talking about. What kind of personal and financial sacrifices did such a person make for his employees, or did they just receive a little while their tithe-paying entrepreneur boss lived a life of self-indulgent luxury?
Mike n Laura
November 09, 2009
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Far more common are the stories of folks who went from rags to riches and became greedy jerks. Paul didn't write that money is a root of all kinds of evil for nuthin. :-)
word love
November 09, 2009

who do you think is more blessed - the one who depends on his riches for happiness or the one who has little and so he is forced to depend on the Lord for his provision/s. isn't there a proverb that says the rich man is cursed. Well i know HE said blessed are the poor. I say the rich man is a fool because he rests on his riches thinking they make him a great man. What will these rich people do when the dollar is so worthless it buys NOTHING!

Ian Grant Spong
November 09, 2009
Mike and Love, great comments! Thanks!