Comments on: Churches as Businesses

By: Bill Wells

Bill Wells — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 17:16:50 +0000

A good minister may not always give you want you need or want; rather trying to challenge the Holy Spirit to express the connection and awareness and love for God is a little more than business. Could there be some confusion with Economics of Religion and Economics of Spirit? Rick Warren might have been able to accomplish what he has because of his attention deficit disorder…though I would wonder how many and at what costs have people succumbed to not know the difference between right and wrong. A lot of economies may have been lost.
Peace & Blessings!

By: Seun Osewa

Seun Osewa — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 16:02:11 +0000

> Peter Drucker said that businesses don’t exist to reform their customers.

In your experience, do modern churches reform their customers? I don’t think so!

By: Deborah Boyer

Deborah Boyer — Tue, 27 Dec 2005 20:36:24 +0000

I am not sure anything is going to change his mind now

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 27 Dec 2005 19:45:51 +0000

Thankfully we have a separation of Church and State in the U.S.

Back when the American colonies were first formed, not only did the churches receive State funds, but the colonists were actually forced to attend church. Failure to go to church resulted in severe punishments.

The separation of Church and State not only made the Churches compete for money, but also for members as people were no longer forced to attend.

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 27 Dec 2005 18:45:03 +0000

LOL… yeah I guess you are right

By: COD

COD — Tue, 27 Dec 2005 15:40:40 +0000

//Peter Drucker said that businesses don’t exist to reform their customers. I wonder if Willow Creek might change his mind about that//

That would be kind of difficult since he passed away back in Nov