Revival Fires Baptist College

Christian Ethics

Professor: Dr. Dennis Corle

What is Ethical for the Employer?

I. Dr. Corle is not for unions.

A. Unethical employers are what started unions.

B. The unions have done more damage to the economy and work ethic in the long run than

the bad employers did.

C. The employer needs to have integrity and do what is right for their employees.

D. Unions began because of oppressive employers.

E. The unions today are as unethical as the employers were 50 or 100 years ago.

F. You need to have enough integrity to do what is right whether the union is forcing you

to or not.

G. You never get ahead by doing wrong.

II. Matthew 20:1-16, “For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which

went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard. And when he had agreed with

the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard. And he went out about the third

hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace, And said unto them; Go ye also into the

vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give you. And they went their way. Again he went out

about the sixth and ninth hour, and did likewise. And about the eleventh hour he went out, and

found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle? They say

unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard; and

whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive. So when even was come, the lord of the vineyard

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What is Ethical for the Employer?

saith unto his steward, Call the labourers, and give them their hire, beginning from the last unto

the first. And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every

man a penny. But when the first came, they supposed that they should have received more; and

they likewise received every man a penny. And when they had received it, they murmured

against the goodman of the house, Saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast

made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day. But he answered

one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny?

Take that thine is, and go thy way: I will give unto this last, even as unto thee. Is it not lawful

for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good? So the last shall

be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.”

A. When the Lord comes out and hires us into His vineyard, we are just as saved in the

first hour as we are in the eleventh hour.

B. The employer gave exactly what He promised he would do.

C. It is ethical for the employer to do what he said he would do.

D. If you are an employer or anyone else, the ethical thing to do is to follow through with

what you have promised you would do.

E. If you want trouble, all you have to do is tell people one thing and then do something

else and you have more trouble than you can handle.

F. You have an obligation to have enough integrity so that your employees can trust you

that you will do what you say you will do.

G. Every employer should do all he can to make the work situation desirable.

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What is Ethical for the Employer?

1.If you don’t make it easy and palatable, they won’t do it long term.

2.As an employer, you ought to pay your employees all you can pay them.

3.When I have employees, I ought to be as good to them as I can possibly be.

4.You need to be sensitive to their needs.

5.I need to reward their faithfulness.

III. Ephesians 6:9, “And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing threatening:

knowing that your Master also is in heaven; neither is there respect of persons with him.”

A. Don’t forget you have a master in Heaven.

B. You will give account to Him.

C. Don’t use all of the authority you have.

IV. Colossians 4:1, “Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that

ye also have a Master in heaven.”

A. Treat them right.

B. Be just with them.

C. Do the right thing.

D. Don’t manipulate and be unjust with them.

V. Deuteronomy 24:14, “Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether

he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates:”

A. Don’t be guilty of oppression.

B. Oppression is squeezing everything I can get out of someone and giving nothing back.

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C. It is wrong for me to just care about the production only and not care about the

employee that is running the production.

D. I should not allow you to destroy your marriage just for me.

E. The employer should have a concern for the employees themselves.

F. Many think that the end justifies the means.

1.Many preachers don’t care how many people they destroy as long as the

outcome is what they intended.

2.I am for salvation and baptism, but I am not to destroy everybody to get there.

3.I must have concern for my staff

G. Just because the organization I am over is growing does not mean that I have a right to

drive them into the ground and burn people out.

VI. In the church the pastor is the employer.

A. He chooses who works for him.

B. He decides whether the staff is someone he can trust to make decisions for him.

C. I need to be considerate of that staff after I hire them.

D. Don’t just look at them as a producer.

E. Look at them as a person.

F. If you are going to produce, there must be some maintenance.

G. If you are going to have work time, there must be down time.

H. They shouldn’t be too lazy to work, but I should give them some free time.

I. If you are not careful, you will rationalize wrong doing as an employer.

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What is Ethical for the Employer?

1.Don’t milk them dry.

2.Don’t work them until there is nothing left in them.

VII. If you have a good work ethic, you will get respect from your employees.

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