The Christian Executive and Time by Ted W . Engstrom
A passion for excellence” was the hoped-for theme and personal life objective of our late president, John F. Kennedy. It seems to me that Christians in leadership responsibilities, who are active in service for the Lord Jesus Christ, need to have the same passion for excellence. Certainly we would agree that God’s work, our service for the Lord, demands the very best that we have to offer to Him. In doing this, one thing we have to do is make the best possible use of time given to us (Eph. 5:16). In the beginning, and for centuries, man was a hunter, a fisherman and a farmer. In all of these things, time was not an important factor because it 20
was measured by seasons, moons or days. When man started working in factories and offices, time became important, because it was being sold to the employer. He measured the hours bought by means of clocks. We are now more and more concerned about hours and minutes and even split seconds— with computer time being currently measured in billionths of a second. Time is immensely valuable and utterly irretriev able. No one has any more time, any less time, than you and I. There are 1440 minutes in every given day. We each have the same amount of time allo cated to us as everyone else. Whether paper boy or THE KING'S BUSINESS
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