Position vs. Performance

Karthik · Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 1:52 pm Post subject: Position vs. Performance

A priest dies and is waiting in line at the Pearly Gates.

Ahead of him is a guy who's dressed in sunglasses, a loud shirt, leather

jacket and jeans.

Saint Peter addresses him, "Who are you, so that I may know whether or
not
to admit you into the Kingdom of Heaven?"

The guy replies, "I'm Joe Cohen, taxi driver, from New York."

Saint Peter consults his list. He smiles and says to the taxi driver,
"Take this silken robe and golden staff and enter the Kingdom of
Heaven."

Now it's the priest's turn.

He stands erect and booms out, "I am the Right Reverend Joseph Snow,
pastor of Saint Mary's for the last forty-three years."

Saint Peter consults his list. He says to the priest, "Take this cotton
robe and wooden staff and enter the Kingdom of Heaven."

"Just a minute," says the priest. "That man was a taxi driver. Why does
he
get a silken robe and golden staff?"

"Results say," shrugged Saint Peter. "That while you preached, people
slept. But when he drove, people prayed."