Who's on first?
Who's on first?
I love to laugh at even the well worn humor ......
But my latest call to HQ in IN turned out to not be funny at all. I had a couple of questions about why we close churches instead of putting pastors in them. So ... my first question was how many pastors do we have serving as senior pastors in the U.S.
One office (unnamed) said that they did not have any idea, but if I would call another office (identity protected) that they could tell me. After several connects and a few "dis-connects" the conclusion was ... "no one knows". In my wildest (well not 'wildest', dreams) I would never have imagined that at our international hq. no one would know that info.
After several calls and offending a few people in office (not to be confused with in 'their' office)
I began to think of the old humorus ..... Who's on First .....
Except ........ It Ain't Funny (perhaps ... noone)
I love to laugh at even the well worn humor ......
But my latest call to HQ in IN turned out to not be funny at all. I had a couple of questions about why we close churches instead of putting pastors in them. So ... my first question was how many pastors do we have serving as senior pastors in the U.S.
One office (unnamed) said that they did not have any idea, but if I would call another office (identity protected) that they could tell me. After several connects and a few "dis-connects" the conclusion was ... "no one knows". In my wildest (well not 'wildest', dreams) I would never have imagined that at our international hq. no one would know that info.
After several calls and offending a few people in office (not to be confused with in 'their' office)
I began to think of the old humorus ..... Who's on First .....
Except ........ It Ain't Funny (perhaps ... noone)
posted by Richard Lauby at
4:28:00 PM
1 Comments:
I will say that sometimes it does make sense to prune the tree. We lost thousands of dollars by keeping our sister church open for no apparent reason. God's Word does point out that if something is not bearing fruit, cut it off! The hundreds of thousands of dollars that are sitting in empty properties could be used in other ways.
But the big questions is, does the money from unfruitful churches go to fruitful churches. It did in our case, but I would say that we're the exception, not the rule.
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