The deficit driven life

URGENT: SEND MONEY!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/31/AR2009123101234.html

 

It is not unusual for churches to send letters to members listing the finances and saying that they are short for the year, quarter, etc.

 

Dear Saddleback Family,

HELP! I FUCKING LOST $900,000 IN VEGAS LAST WEEK!

(And 2 points for the thread title.)

 

We got ours about three weeks ago.

 

Couldn't he recoup that with more merchandising? Like The Purpose Driven Life's Little Instruction Book? Or The Purpose Driven Fuzzy Dice?

 

How many of those are headed by multimillionaires?

 

Just putting that out there. I could argue either ways over whether Rev. Rick should be making up deficits of his church.

 

For all I know he could have billions secretly stashed away, but I found this interesting:

As the money has rolled in from his book, Warren stopped taking his $110,000 annual salary and repaid the church for his 25 years of salary since its founding. He and his wife became "reverse tithers," he said, keeping 10 percent of their income and giving away the rest, including $13 million in 2004.

http://legacy.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20060126/news_1c26warren.html

 

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At our church they have a huge posterboard that is updated weekly showing how much donations are compared to expenses etc... I'm not doubting the accuracy, but it's really fucking tacky.

 

Not unsual for churches. It's a way for them to be transparent and to show people where their money is going.

 

Tacky, yes, but a church's budget is directly tied to how much everyone is willing to pony up when the basket is passed.