Then Jesus said to the Disciples. "There was a rich man who had a manager and charges were brought to him that this man was squandering his property. So he summoned him and said to him 'What is this that I hear about you? Give me an accounting of your management, because you cannot be my manager any longer’ Then the manager said to himself, 'What will I do, now that my master is taking the position away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg. I have decided what to do so that when I am dismissed as manager, people may welcome me into their homes'. So summoning his master’s debtors one by one he asked the first, 'How much do you owe my master?’ He answered ‘a hundred jugs of olive oil'. He said to him 'sit down quickly and make it fifty'. Then he asked another. 'How much do you owe' and he answered 'A hundred containers of wheat' He said to him 'Take your bill and make it eighty' And the master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly; for the children of this age are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than are the children of light.
No Servant can be the slave of two masters; such a servant will hate one and love the other or will be loyal to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money”.
St Luke 16 v 1 - 8, 13
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