"Kingdom Companies are basically a long-term impossibility and a pious dream," said management consultant and author Dr. Thomas Giudici, previously Head of Finances in Basel, Switzerland. "Effective management and Christian thinking are not easily combined," he said, destroying any illusions the congress participants may still have had: "Being a Christian and acting according to accepted business rules are mutually exclusive," according to a comment in the newspaper "Nuremberg News". "Do not be conformed to this world," writes Paul in Romans 12, and despite this clear instruction, millions of Christians are hopelessly trying to combine Mammon's market values and the Bible.

"Trying to combine both long-term is a recipe for disaster," says Giudici. It's like playing Handball on a football pitch - two different games with different rules. In recent years, many authors have propagated the un-biblical concept of uniting job and calling, with the result that many Christians are in a dead end, deprived of their true calling as apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, teachers, deacons or elders. This attitude was the reaction to the era in which trained clergy looked at laypeople as second-class Christians. "But anyone who says 'my job is my calling' has a fair-weather theology which works only as long as their employer has work for them," says Giudici.

The Price of Money

God's stewards (managers) are not led by greed. But that's mostly theory; most Christian businesspeople limit their religious activities to Sunday or their free time. Many are hobby Christians, trying to serve both God and Mammon at the same time. Anyone serving Mammon pays a high price, "The Price of Money" (the title of a new book published in German by Giudici and Friday Fax editor Wolfgang Simson): he loses his life, his freedom and ultimately his eternal life. Giudici calls for a radical change of mind, similar to a brainwash: a "Cleansing from Mammon-Mindedness".

Christians should not take non-Christians jobs
"God has enough paid work," says Giudici. Christians can do (almost) everything which non-Christians do: bake bread, make cars and so on. But non-Christians can't do that which only Christians can: take the position to which they are called in the Kingdom of God. He called on the conference attendees to not take non-Christians' jobs. That is doubly unfair, because non-Christians also can't enter heaven...
Leadership: the claim and the task
Only someone with healthy values can lead well. "I am the light of the world" is the greatest claim to leadership ever made, according to Dr. Siegfried Buchholz. Jesus, who said it, told his followers "You are the light of the world." That is the greatest leadership task ever given.
Source: Wolfgang Simson and Thomas Giudici