@TheNolanGore I try to pay for as little as possible.
If my 30 co-pastors are killing it at the merch tables after the service I MAY comp. them a free coffee but, if and only if, their table sales exceed last weeks numbers.
I'm one bad week away from defaulting on my Series 7.
@readswithravi Were you in my elders meeting last night?
I gave a similar message to my 30 co-pastors, except, I said "you are the sheep, I am the shepherd, stop yucking it up at the coffee station and work the merch tables"
@Brady_H I prefer running never.
And I also prefer my 30 other co-pastors not yucking it up at the coffee station after the service.
I'm one bad merch sales week away from a default on my Mastercraft wake surf boat.
It's crazy to me that linear regression isn't taught in seminary (which is why i've included it in my church growth course).
Lesson 402: Finding the line of best fit through merch and giving tables.
@realEstateTrent Correlation <> causation.
Trust me, I should know... I have some advanced math in my latest church growth course you should check out.
https://t.co/OJLKjUdqzd
It's crazy to me that linear regression isn't taught in seminary (which is why i've included it in my church growth course).
Lesson 402: Finding the line of best fit through merch and giving tables.
Looking for some sermon inspiration. I've maxed out both claude and chat usage for my previous sermons so i'm going to have to do this the old fashioned way.
@TJ_Bongiorno I have 12 churches and would be willing to flip your product at our merch tables for a 15% tithe.
I'd probably let Brian handle it at door 2B. He recently got on TRT and could likely speak the language of your ideal customer.
@MikeHoffmann Well $2k is the difference between me keeping and defaulting on my 2026 Mastercraft wake surf boat.
And believe you me, if I defaulted on that in peak summer, I would be dead.
So yeah, I would call it life changing money.
I needed this.
Sometimes my 30 other co-pastors have no idea what i've had to sacrifice to dial in the fog machines, get rid of our stage lighting that seemed like it was purchased off a street vendor in Hong Kong, optimize our merch table and giving station layout using advanced linear regression.
It's a grind but I must endure.
Or else I'm defaulting on my Series 7.