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If Churches Were in the Business of Sports
If churches were in the business of sports and treated preachers as athletes:
1. “Training camp invite” is when a preacher is invited for a gospel meeting that doubles as a “tryout”.
2. “Restricted free agent” is when a preacher informs the leadership he has been asked by another congregation to move there but the home church has an opportunity to match the “offer”.
3. “Free agent” is when the contract is over and the preacher is not “resigned”.
4. “Terminated for cause” is when a preacher is fired for violating a clause in the contract.
5. “Rookie contract” is when the preacher is young, doing the same work as an older preacher, but doesn’t have the experience.
6. “Performance bonus” is when the preacher has reached certain marks such as the number of baptisms.
Thankfully, churches can treat preachers biblically, because the congregation and preacher are in fellowship with one another, where the binding “contract” is nothing more than God’s word, and letting “a yes be yes”. Churches are not businesses.
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