The Seminar
Well, I attended a Church Management and Tax Seminar in Providence (read: Warwick), RI today. I learned some new things, picked up a few tips, and got a few ideas to mull over. I also managed to stay awake to the very end of the seminar, no thanks to having stayed up later than usual the night before. But, as I reckon it, I won't be reposing upon ye olde deathbede, wishing I'd spent less time with friends and more time sleeping.
I won't bore you with any of the technical details of the seminar, since most of you will be primarily interested in the Humorous Anecdote From LunchTime, and, since that is the only snippet from the day I'm going to bother to share with you.
But first, I had been warned by someone who had been to this seminar before that the speaker's approach seemed to be to emphasize the many legal requirements of churches in the hope that the church management neophytes in the audience would be duped into buying their systems and programs. Only then would the actual content, seen through this skeptical lense, prove helpful, which I found to be more or less true. So, on that note...
I went to lunch with a few of the other seminar attendees, and one pastor declared that, after hearing the morning's content, he would rather just be a volunteer usher. We concluded that this was the reasoning behind why David said he would "rather be a doorkeeper in the House of the Lord." Indeed, a state of ignorance of the fiduciary and legal obligations of church officials is, not to put too fine a point on it, bliss. And you wonder why I cut the grass.
Okay, so that wasn't a Very Humorous Anecdote, and perhaps, on a better day, I wouldn't even consider it a Humorous Anecdote, just a Plain-Old, Run-Of-The-Mill Anecdote, but beggars can't be choosers, you know.
And I'm off to bed before I get cantankerous.
I won't bore you with any of the technical details of the seminar, since most of you will be primarily interested in the Humorous Anecdote From LunchTime, and, since that is the only snippet from the day I'm going to bother to share with you.
But first, I had been warned by someone who had been to this seminar before that the speaker's approach seemed to be to emphasize the many legal requirements of churches in the hope that the church management neophytes in the audience would be duped into buying their systems and programs. Only then would the actual content, seen through this skeptical lense, prove helpful, which I found to be more or less true. So, on that note...
I went to lunch with a few of the other seminar attendees, and one pastor declared that, after hearing the morning's content, he would rather just be a volunteer usher. We concluded that this was the reasoning behind why David said he would "rather be a doorkeeper in the House of the Lord." Indeed, a state of ignorance of the fiduciary and legal obligations of church officials is, not to put too fine a point on it, bliss. And you wonder why I cut the grass.
Okay, so that wasn't a Very Humorous Anecdote, and perhaps, on a better day, I wouldn't even consider it a Humorous Anecdote, just a Plain-Old, Run-Of-The-Mill Anecdote, but beggars can't be choosers, you know.
And I'm off to bed before I get cantankerous.
posted by brandywine on Wednesday, November 08, 2006
2 Comments:
Oh, that subtle fiduciary humor...
I think that's a fine (and actually rather humorous) anecdote to pull from such a day; I don't think I would have lasted five seconds in that seminar. But I got a great movie and quality time out of the deal, so it all works out well for us blissful tithe-paying commoners!
Anecdotes, we like! Along with pithy wisdom about how to spend one's time.
And in conclusion, all I can say is...thankful you're willing to do that stuff!
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