Now maybe it’s just the fact that I’m firmly in the Bible Belt, but it seems to me that just about every local printshop my university has a licensing deal with happens to be run in the name of Jesus Christ. In terms of things Jesus couldn’t care less about, I’m pretty sure screenprinting is rather high on the list. In fact, I’m sure it’s far higher than the outcome of any sporting match.
That said, there’s something about businesses being run for the glory of God that creep me out. They just seem so unnaturally out of touch. They provide a secular service and do very little to actually promote the message of God. They’d very likely not stay in business long if they were extremely overt about it. At any rate, nearly all of their day to day operations have anything to do with religion, yet their mission statements read something like this:
Despite the remarkable success of this business venture, Dwain won’t take credit for any of it. Giving all the glory to God, he believes that [redacted] has thrived as a direct result of God’s blessing on the business. “When I tell people that we should never forget from where we’ve come, what I’m trying to say is that there has been a lot of hard work put in between 1991 and now. God is the one who gave us the work and the sacrifices we made early on are paying off now. I believe that nothing good can be gained without a sacrifice…nothing that’s going to last. The most incredible sacrifice ever given was for sin–on the cross. If it took a sacrifice like that to redeem the sin of the world, how can we expect to be successful in God’s eyes without sacrificing hard work and some time and effort to make his business successful? He’ll reward that hard work. God has rewarded us by continually bringing us faithful customers. They’re loyal to us and we’re grateful for them. That is why we’re successful…and that is why we must never forget from where we’ve come.”
So it couldn’t have been the hard work and the large amount of student groups who print shirts through your lucrative contracts with the second largest university in the state that had anything to do with it at all? I certainly know God had nothing to do with our purchase, but very poor photoshop abilities are going to have a lot to do with us not purchasing. So, you know, add photoshop to the list of things God doesn’t do. And if hard work and sacrifice is what is required to please God to make your business successful, how does that explain the Fortune 500 list?
