Towards a More Perfect Consumer Church 3迈向更完美的消费教会3

Check out签出 this funny post这个有趣的职位 on TallSkinnyKiwi.对tallskinnykiwi 。 It points out the consumerism of the church today.它指出，消费主义的教会今天。 I got a very similar mailer from a local area church once (that likens their three different worship styles with different coffee drinks).  Church is all about taste, right?我得到一个非常类似的邮件从一个地方教会的一次（即likens他们的3个不同的崇拜与风格不同的咖啡饮料） 。教会是所有有关的味道，对不对？

His post reminds me of a couple posts I wrote a while back called Towards a More Perfect Consumer Church (You can read them他的职位使我想起了一对夫妇职位，我写了一回，而所谓的建立一个更加完善，消费者的教堂 （你可以阅读他们 here这里 and和 here这里 ).  I now offer to you a third installment of Towards a More Perfect Consumer Church … ） 。我现在提供给你的第三个分期付款的迈向更完美的消费教会 …

Churchway? churchway ？

Amway is a great company.  People are motivated to help their friends AND expand their own potential wealth at the same time!  The cool think about Amway is that you get residual income from your "downlines."安利是一个伟大的公司，人们的动机，以帮助他们的朋友和扩大自己的潜在财富在同一时间内！冷静的想一想，安利是您获得剩余收益从您的“ downlines ” 。 In other words, if you can get 100 friends into your Amway business, you are not only helping them find personal wealth, but get a percentage of their sales yourself.  You can be set for life simply by helping your friends start their own Amway business.在其他换句话说，如果你可以得到100的朋友到您的安利业务，你不仅是帮助他们找到的个人财富，但得到的一个百分比，他们销售自己，你可以订定简单的生活，帮助您的朋友开始自己的安利业务。

The church can learn from this.  What if people got a residual income from the people they bring to church?  Let’s say "George" invites 20 friends to church, and they all become members (givers).  If each gives $400 a month, and "George" were to get 3% residual income from their giving, he’d be getting $240 a month!教会可以借鉴，这是什么，如果人们仅得到剩余的收入来自于人民，他们带来的教会呢？让的说“乔治”邀请20个朋友去教堂，他们都成为成员（提供者） 。如果每个给予每月400元，和“ George ”获得3 ％ ，剩余的收入从他们的给予，他想要得到240元一个月！ And if each of those 20 brought 5 more friends (who each gave $400 a month), and George got 1% residual from those 2nd generation "downlines" he’d get another $400–that’s $640 for helping his church!  The newcomers get to be a part of an awesome new church, the Church is able to grow in people and giving, and George get’sa nice retirement income.  Everyone wins.如果上述各20所带来的五有更多的朋友（谁给每个每月400元） ，乔治得到1 ％的残余从这些第二代“ downlines ” ，他想要得到的另一个400元的-这是$ 640 ，为帮助他的教会！新人获得的一部份一个可怕的新教会，教会是能够成长，在人民和给予，和乔治get'sa尼斯退休收入，每个人都赢。

Churchdaq? churchdaq ？

Finding a good church is difficult.  If only there were a way to "track" the success of all the churches in your area, so that you can know which church to attend… Well, now there is!找到一个很好的教会是很难，只要有一种方式“跟踪”的成功，所有的教会在您的地区，这样你可以知道哪个教会出席…那么，现在有！ Introducing Churchdaq?引进churchdaq ？

Using the simple formula below, each church’s success can be determined and made public to使用简单的公式下面，每个教会的成功，才能确定和公布 potential church goers:潜在的教会人士：

For example, Pine Hills Church is a church of 4000 that has grown by 500 in the past year in a city of 200,000 and has an average yearly giving per person of $2000 (the median income of the area is $35,000/year).  Their Churchdaq score would be 13.06.  On the other side of town, the Church of the Redeemer has 150 people, 10 of which are new converts from the past year.  Their average annual giving per person is only $1000.  There score is a measly 0.23.  It is clear which church is experiencing greater success.举例来说，松树山教会是一个教会的4000已增加了500在过去的一年里在一个城市的20.0万，并已平均每年给予每人2000美元（入息中位数的面积元， 35000/year ） 。其churchdaq评分将6月13日。在另一边的城市，教会的救赎已经有150人，其中10个新的转换，从过去的一年，他们平均每年给予每人只有1000美元。有评分是一个measly 0.23 。显然，这是教会在经历了更大的成功。

Taking the Movie Promotion Trend Even Further! 以电影推广的趋势，甚至进一步！

Remember the Passion Ad campaign?  Maybe you’ve noticed记得热情的广告系列？也许你已经注意到， the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe church ad campaign狮子，女巫和衣柜，教会的广告系列 ?  I say we go even further…introducing ？我说我们更进一步引进… the Exorcism of Emily Rose该驱魔的刘慧卿上升 Ad Campaign!广告！

Before you respond, please realize that this is a parody.  It is supposed to be funny.  I know that God loves the people in the sorts of churches I poke fun at.  I don’t want to discredit how God works in their lives.  But I do want to challenge consumerist ideology and how it affects the Church.在您回应之前，请认识到，这是一个拙劣的模仿，它应该是有趣的。我知道上帝爱人民，在各种各样的教会i戳乐趣，我不想抹黑如何上帝的工程在他们的生活。但我想挑战的消费思想和它如何影响教会。

Don’t forget,不要忘记， the Conference on Christianity in a Consumer Culture裁谈会，基督教在一个消费文化 is coming in April 2006.  Help get the word out.  Thanks.即将在2006年4月。帮助词。感谢。

for further reading .为进一步读。 . 。 . 。

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