26 Apr 07 Remember To Tip Your Minister
Greg wrote yesterday about an experience at a well known eatery. He wrote about occupations that expect and demand a tip. My favorite is the tip jar at Starbucks or the sandwich shop. So, not only do I pay $4 for the coffee drink I’m expected to pay you for making my coffee drink? I thought that’s what the owner of the shop was suppossed to do?
Time to start another campaign. Ministers are being left out of this lucrative tip enterprise.
I can see many tip worthy scenarios.
“Here’s a little something for a seat on the back pew.”
“How about a crisp Franklin to keep the sermon under 20 minutes?”
That whole tradition of standing in the back and shaking everyone’s hand as they try to think of something nice to say about the sermon would be more interesting if we ministers were in on that gratuity thing.
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Great idea. I apologize to you for not thinking of it 40 years ago and promoting it strongly. Truth be told, I did think of it, I just didn’t have the guts to speak up.
I’m on my way out, but you are young and still have the opportunity to open wide this cash-flow gate! It wouldn’t have worked for me anyway because I never stand at any door and shake hands. That’s not to say I don’t greet people, but I don’t station myself at any particular place in the building.
P. S. But had there been cash tips at them-thair doors, I might have just had to be there for that!
I always thought that “gratuity thing” was to be earned? Better re-examine that ATM in the pew thing, might be time to start cashing in on that. Kind of like the service fee banks charge you for using a different ATM; maybe you could skim off the top……or put differently, accept the initial love offering.
Someone must be having a big morgage payment coming up! Financial stress makes for a creative mind.
At least, with tips, you’d always know “how you did”, though I imagine a prophet might show up at one of the worships and let you really know how you did…
BTW, glad your comment box has changed. I couldn’t use any of the format features anyway since everything was in Chinese, I think.
That’s all it costs (”a Franklin”) for a short sermon? Let the tipping begin.
After over eight years of “filling in,” I just started receiving some payment for services rendered this year. I don’t think I’d better start asking for tips just yet.
I actually had a man at church who, every Christmas would press a hundred dollar bill into my hand as he shook my hand. And never a word about short sermons!
so if tips were to be received does that mean the church would justify a lower salary?
you could put a hat out in front of the podium and instead of or along side amens they could throw in some bills.
i always wondered if song leaders were bribe-able. you know to lead or not lead a certain song.
Tipping in church. That’s material for many a funny scenario. There might be some dubious scriptural pseudo cover for it. Remember that the priests back in the tabernacle days were entitled to make a one time pick of meat from most offerings.
Infact, it formed the basis of one of God’s complaint against the Sons of Eli. To wit, they were untowardly deliberate in making their pick and if substituted the pick for another if they didn’t like the initial pick and sometimes make multiple picks all which are a no no.