Barton portrays Jesus as a deft executive who “picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organization that conquered the world.” Despite Barton’s echo of Ford that “all work is worship; all useful service prayer,” it was clear that work and service were conceived in managerial and professional terms. Indeed, Barton believed that corporate business was God’s indispensable partner in dominion over the planet. “Whoever works wholeheartedly at any worthy calling is a co-worker with the Almighty,”
