WorshipLeader Gives $15,000 Stage Makeover
I wish I had heard about this earlier. Worship Leader Magazine has had a contest going on where you could win a $15,000 stage makeover for your church. The problem is the entries have already been submitted and now you can vote for who you think should be the winner.
At first I was thinking “Ahhh man! Why didn’t I hear about this sooner?” Then I started thinking, could $15,000 be used in a better way to reach more people for Christ?
What do you think? Surely the $15,000 could be used by the church to hopefully improve things and assist them in reaching more and more people each service. But would $15,000 have been better used by a local shelter or even Compassion International?
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2 opinions for WorshipLeader Gives $15,000 Stage Makeover
Avery W. Krouse
Apr 6, 2008 at 11:03 pm
Love your blog, especially the thought provoking questions you post. In this case, I thought I’d provide my first comment as an answer to the question you posed today.
I find the latter section of your last remark to be the flawed premise upon which all criticism of church expenditure is based. We as a people do not complain when McDonalds spends a million dollars to find out whether or not people prefer cherry or pecan for their new pie. We don’t flinch when Wal-Mart pours millions into their stores to change the color of the tiles in the women’s clothing department. We don’t even bat an eye when our city’s public works department spends a few thousand dollars adding flowers to a median halfway across town.
Why, then, do people criticize when a Christian organization (church or otherwise) spend money on their aesthetic or technological display as opposed to missions or charity? Surely the revenue of Wal-Mart, which far exceeds the GDP of a good number of nations, could take a far bigger hit for charity’s sake; nevermind the fact that they already donate millions.
We ignore, then, the fact that the global collective that we would consider “the church” sends missionaries all over the world to complete humanitarian missions, that we expend millions of dollars in our local communities in charity and public assistance, and that in order to earn and grow the revenue needed to do so, we must attract more and more people to the collective to input their individual monies into the whole.
In layman’s terms, so what? Fifteen thousand is a drop in the bucket compared to the millions Lakewood spent buying their coliseum, the book sales from the Purpose-Driven Life, and the record sales from Hillsong.
Just my two cents.
Jason Bean
Apr 6, 2008 at 11:19 pm
Very interesting! And I think I’d have to agree as well on both sides of the argument. Thanks for sharing this insight.
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