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Friday, February 6th, 2004 12:09 pmThe one thing I remember from last night's dreams is that the contestants on The Apprentice suddenly had their goal change from profit-making and pleasing Donald Trump to "Christlikeness and suffering-servanthood."
No matter what your viewing habits or religious beliefs, imagine this: A group of young, attractive, highly ambitious people, some of whom have been gleefully stabbing each other in the back on camera, are suddenly told one morning, "Today your task will be a bit different. We are going to see just how adaptable you are. Instead of making the most money you can or getting the best deals on needed supplies, your job is to be humble, to put others first, to do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Your first task this morning will be to wash each other's feet in humility and grace. After that, each team must design and implement a plan for demonstrating love and service to a suffering world. Your success in this task will not be measured in numbers. Your day's activities will be evaluated by a team of men and women you've never heard of who spend their days quietly working with folks who are poor, sick, or in prison. Your evaluators want me to stress that they will not be evaluating your motives, since only Almighty God can know what's in your hearts. But they will be looking carefully at all that you do today and watching to see which team does the best job of helping those in need, demonstrating meekness, acting with mercy, making peace, even turning the other cheek if that's necessary--in short, which team best exemplifies the Spirit of Jesus Christ.
"I'm leaving now to negotiate a multimillion-dollar deal. I'll see you all back here at five. Good luck."
Is it so very wrong of me to get all giggly every time I think about this?
No matter what your viewing habits or religious beliefs, imagine this: A group of young, attractive, highly ambitious people, some of whom have been gleefully stabbing each other in the back on camera, are suddenly told one morning, "Today your task will be a bit different. We are going to see just how adaptable you are. Instead of making the most money you can or getting the best deals on needed supplies, your job is to be humble, to put others first, to do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Your first task this morning will be to wash each other's feet in humility and grace. After that, each team must design and implement a plan for demonstrating love and service to a suffering world. Your success in this task will not be measured in numbers. Your day's activities will be evaluated by a team of men and women you've never heard of who spend their days quietly working with folks who are poor, sick, or in prison. Your evaluators want me to stress that they will not be evaluating your motives, since only Almighty God can know what's in your hearts. But they will be looking carefully at all that you do today and watching to see which team does the best job of helping those in need, demonstrating meekness, acting with mercy, making peace, even turning the other cheek if that's necessary--in short, which team best exemplifies the Spirit of Jesus Christ.
"I'm leaving now to negotiate a multimillion-dollar deal. I'll see you all back here at five. Good luck."
Is it so very wrong of me to get all giggly every time I think about this?
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