The steward is terminated from his employment. But before he goes, he calls in all his master's debtors and forgives their debt, or lessons it considerably. He does that so that when he needs help, after being fired, he'll have friends who will help him
This doesn't make sense to me because the master will have the steward thrown in jail for giving away what is rightfully his. Who's going to help the steward now?
But the worst doesn't happen. The steward gets away with it. He's a conniving schemer and the master admires him for it. If the master gets angry and has the steward arrested, he'll be the perceived as the bad guy. But if he lets the steward alone, and lets his debtors alone, then the master is perceived as generous.
The point Jesus was trying to make was to be intelligent about planing for heaven.
But I can't get over the sneaky conniver's machinations to cheat his master.
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