I really enjoy the small church that my wife drags me to about every other Sunday. One Sunday a month I have a union meeting and one Sunday a month I just am not functionable enough to leave the house on Sunday morning. So hence, the every other Sunday church routine.
I use to hate when the worship center would preach that they need $170,000 to meet their budget for the year. And that was in October! I was always like, what the hell? I do not think our $20. a week is going to help out that much. And my wife would say- oh, I give $50. sometimes. And I would be like- really? When did you get a fucking job?
But that was here nor there- I think even though we switched over to this smaller church right down the road, the worship center still had enough in their account to buy the 18 acre farm lot out back and build their expansion. Can I get a praise the lord from the congregation? Praise the lord!
Our small church never preaches about how much money they need. It really is almost like they do not give a shit? Today we got a pamphlet that was all about giving at Christmas. It went something like this-
Stressmas- Impersonalmas, Checklistmas, Consumermas, Trafficjammas, Gotta-buy-everyone-a-damn-gift-even-if-they-hate-it-mas.
We want to celebrate Christmas the way it was intended: with Jesus. For Jesus.
Worship Fully, Spend Less, Give More, Love All. Are you ready to enter the story?
This Christmas we are inviting you to take the one-less-gift Advent Conspiracy challenge as we as a church take a stand together and show the world that Christ is here. Still loving, still caring for those in need. It is what one less gift can do. Less spending. More relational giving. More resources to help those who need it most.
So here's our Advent Conspiracy plan:
Fuck the wife or girlfriend: between birthdays and Valentines day, the bitch has gotten enough expensive shit through the year! send a contribution to some third world family that does not have clean drinking water or shirts to wear!
Fuck the spoiled rotten kids! Those little shits eat and drink 10 times a day when some kid in Africa is happy to get some generic oatmeal every other day!!!
And last but not least- Fuck you- drink cheaper beer- do not go out as much and just maybe spend some money at the grocery store and not the fast food drive-thru!! Send donations to people that are much worse off than we are!
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