It’s happened to just about everyone. Someone owes us money and doesn’t pay. We know how we respond – Christian or not – with demands for payment and a discussion of the other persons “values.” Yet, is that what Christ would do?

For instance, I just came across this blog post by a Christian who wasn’t paid by another Christian for a project he completed.

So I make this video for a member of my church, quote him my hourly rate of $39 per hour. He receives the video and is very outwardly happy with it, I invoice him for 21 hours and he leaves saying he will pay on that day.

The next day he returns to pick up the DVD and get the media file to play on his laptop in presentations because he is flying over to Africa to present this video to people that weekend. He mentions that I had made a slip-up in the invoice which I acknowledge and it was actually 19 hours, not 21. My bad, invoice fixed. He says he’ll pay that week.

The next week comes, no payment, he’s in Africa, I email him and he writes back angrily because I emailed him. States he will pay this week.

Of course he doesn’t, and it goes on, but you get the gist. I felt compelled to leave a comment and have cut and pasted it here because it is a valuable lesson for the rest of us.  [Read more →]