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Jesus: The Ideal Boss: He’s in Charge

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24th  in a series on how men and women in the Bible deal with waiting, disappointment and unemployment Jesus: The Ideal Boss: He’s in Charge Reflections on Mark 10:17-31 Justin Sun, the 28-year-old founder of blockchain platform TRON and CEO of peer-to-peer file sharing protocol BitTorrent, won the annual eBay charity auction to have lunch with Warren Buffett at steakhouse Smith & Wollensky in New York City.   And for only $4.6 million.   What would you pay to have lunch with a powerful and influential person?   Not many of us can compete in this realm but we all have dreams of meeting someone famous and having the opportunity to get to know them. In the New Testament book of Mark a young man boldly walks up to Jesus,   and asked him a question that at one time or another we may want to ask, “Good teacher what must I do to inherit eternal life?”   The translation could be any one of the following: “How much can I get away with and still be allowed t