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I have recently decided to hire all Christian service providers to come in and get my house clean...windows, carpets, cleaning everything - must be Christian owned and operated. If the company doesn't represent with a fish or a cross or crucifix then I refuse to hire. I feel very good about the direction of spiritual, and physical, cleanliness my house is headed in and do not need advice there.


But there is just 1 small problem. I plan on living here.


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I have recently decided to hire all Christian service providers to come in and get my house clean...windows, carpets, cleaning everything - must be Christian owned and operated.

I know I'm very excited about the invention of Christian electricity to run the Christian vacuum cleaner! :angel:
 
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I have recently decided to hire all Christian service providers to come in and get my house clean...windows, carpets, cleaning everything - must be Christian owned and operated. If the company doesn't represent with a fish or a cross or crucifix then I refuse to hire. I feel very good about the direction of spiritual, and physical, cleanliness my house is headed in and do not need advice there.


But there is just 1 small problem. I plan on living here.


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Sell your house and give the proceeds to the poor.

Problem solved. :wave:
 
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It's more honorable (whenever possible), to labor with our own hands than with someone else's.

Barring that, good help (regardless of it's label or moniker), is hard to find, for ineptitude and inefficiency run rampant in a world largely living in darkness.

A trusted friend is worth their weight in gold, yet even they may not be content to do another's "dirty work" for comparatively meager financial compensation.

Yet, if you do find someone trustworthy, let them do the cleaning when you're not around. Or if you are around, keep a respectful distance, so they can concentrate on getting done and out of your way.

I've cleaned a few houses for others , and enjoyed it better + got done faster, if I was alone while doing it.

And don't judge an outfit by their bumper sticker...they may not even be the one who applied it.

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You're welcome !

Laziness sometimes keeps us from doing what we "should".

Labels or labeling symbols are used to designate, conceal, mislead, market, make it easier to "lump together", denigrate, signify friend or foe, and/or show off and impress.

Historically, the use of the cross as an "official" symbol of those claiming Christianity, goes back to Constantine and (what appears to be) a gross misconstruing of what the Cross of Christ represents...for it is the ultimate symbol of surrendering one's own fate into God's Hands without hating, reviling, cursing, retaliating, fighting, warring...but Constantine got the notion that the cross should be worn when going off to fight wars in the flesh, which wrongly gives the impression that Christ/Christianity is militant in an ordinary earthly manner...deviating from one of the most remarkable aspects of Christ's example and instruction to love and not hate our enemies, neither resort to violence, nor be judgmental or condemning of others, [which things generally are all present and pronounced in worldly/carnal conflict/warfare], even if such leads to martyrdom.

For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:
Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judges righteously:
<-----> 1st Peter 2:21-23

May The Lord Be Magnified !

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I fail to see your logic. How can you be a witness to others when you won't step out of your "Christian comfort zone"?

I don't advertise that I'm a Christian. However, I do have a morality clause in my contract and I maintain a professional demeanor with my clients. I actually had a screenshot I sent to my client and my business partner which had the Christian Forums as a bookmark at the top. My business partner then asked if I was a Christian and I found out he is too so now we have a lot of religious discussions (which is really nice since I don't have too many Christian friends in life). I'd rather encounter like this than tell a company "no I'm not going to do business with you because you aren't a Christian". It sounds haughty and rude.
 
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I fail to see your logic. How can you be a witness to others when you won't step out of your "Christian comfort zone"?

I don't advertise that I'm a Christian. However, I do have a morality clause in my contract and I maintain a professional demeanor with my clients. I actually had a screenshot I sent to my client and my business partner which had the Christian Forums as a bookmark at the top. My business partner then asked if I was a Christian and I found out he is too so now we have a lot of religious discussions (which is really nice since I don't have too many Christian friends in life). I'd rather encounter like this than tell a company "no I'm not going to do business with you because you aren't a Christian". It sounds haughty and rude.

I'm probably one of the most eccentric, and unchristian(y) seeming, people in God's colorful kingdom.

And you're right, it would sound very haughty and rude, indeed.
 
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