On Friday 14 December 2001 05:19, Troy A. Griffitts wrote: on behalf of Jeremy Bettis:
> X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 > X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 1.2 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash > mimedefang) Good to see a platform-agnostic message. (-: > You can't expect someone to shell out $1,000,000 or so making a new > translation, and then giving it away for free can you? That depends entirely on your purpose. If your purpose was spreading the Gospel, you certainly can be expected to ``throw away'' $1,000,000.00+. Certainly, Jesus has already invested a good deal in us, and there's more spending and risk still to come for Him. OTOH, if your purpose is running a business, No. Choose ye this day which mode to operate in. Compromise is possible (ie to aim for breakeven or something like it) but even for a one-man-band the different motivations will fight each other continuously. Energy that would otherwise go toward your purpose vanishes into internal friction. Cheers; Leon
