Great news folks this should be the last daily dose for the foreseeable future that will have anything to do with the sultnpapper offspring, I know that it can get pretty old pretty quick having an old guy like me keep posting stories about his kids. But think of it like this, when I am posting about the kids I’m not usually ranting about how screwed up things are in the rest of the places I visit like law, government, and the education system.
So the truth is, the kids do kind of keep it “fair and balanced”, where have you heard that before?
2018 – 144 = 1874 , “OH MY LORD”, he did screw up. He said the church was founded in 1872 not 1874.” the critics are shouting. Yes, I did say 1872 and the math shows 1874 but here is what you don’t know.
In order to be confirmed into the Lutheran Church a person must take two years of confirmation classes. So when the church first founded in 1872 the first confirmation classes did start. Two years later those folks were confirmed into the church in 1874 and because new classes are formed each year there has been a confirmation class every year since then.
So for my critics out there who are looking to bust me, today is not the day.
One thing though that I will point out is that for any group to last 146 years is pretty remarkable. There are not many businesses that a person could point to that have lasted 146 years in the same location doing basically the exact same thing for that amount of time. Also before you go and tell me that a church is not a “business” and that is an unfair comparison I would beg to differ on that.
Normally we don’t think of churches as businesses but they are in fact a business. Most operate as a non-profit business but they are business none the less, and that business is spreading the word of God. I will also tell you that I really don’t believe that most churches are “non-profit” , just take a look around on the television any Sunday morning and see the mega churches on there and how much cash those folks are raking in on a weekly basis.
We have one of those mega churches right here in the Houston area with Lakewood Church and pastor Joel Oesteen. I think I saw recently that his home is worth a measly $10 million and takes up damn near an entire city block. His church is also located on some prime real estate on Hwy 59 right in one of the most expensive commercial areas, the building is the former home of the Houston Rockets basketball team and was known back then as the “Compaq Center” named for Compaq Computers who paid a pretty healthy chunk of change for the naming rights to that building.
I never have really looked into what constitutes a “non-profit” but something seems out of whack when these churches can pass around the collection plate and then turn around and use those moneys to enhance the life styles of the church hierarchy to levels even modest millionaires can’t achieve. Lakewood Church is a non denominational church so everyone is welcome, why limit whom you will take money from, right Joel?
Also by being non- denominational he doesn’t have to pay any “franchise fees” to a main religious organization like the Catholics, Southern Baptists, Greek Orthodox or even the Lutheran church. The collection plate money at Lakewood Church is theirs to do as they see fit with, no main church coming by on Monday with their hands out looking for their piece of the till.
As some of you know, and others might have detected, I have gotten off track again. I have been doing good of late staying on point but this one has slipped off the rails, but I am the engineer of the ride so we are pressing on. I’ll get back to the main point in a moment.
I think I might make a good preacher, I can do fire and brimstone if need be, and I may have uncovered an opportunity as I have been writing this daily dose. I am going to look into starting my own non-denominational denominational church right here on the steemit.com platform, The Church of Sult N Papper , the denomination will be Steem, of course you can also deposit SBD in the collection plate, which is also known as my wallet.
In return I will do my best to save your soul or spirit or whatever else you have that needs saving. Who knows I may have to save the world some day so it would be best if I got a pretty big wad of crypto to work with, so just in case, I also have a bitshares wallet if there is some other denomination you would like to tithe with.
I promise as the pastor of The Church of Sult N Papper I will keep expenses to a minimum and I won’t be buying any huge arenas to hold services, buildings don’t save souls; 
All right I’m back now. So everything went well at the service, Blondie is an official member of the church. We had a great dinner at the local Italian restaurant to celebrate; complete with some good Vino and garlic knots, love those little garlic knots. Everyone had plenty to eat of their choice and our two waiters got a nice tip at the end, so I think everyone ended up happy and full.
I ended up on the couch an hour later and got a much needed nap, in fact I missed the Sunday poker game as I slept right past the start time. This should be the last time you hear about confirmation for 2018 unless the minister doesn’t return Blondie’s paper she wrote, then both you and he will hear about it. He has already heard today, and he promised that the office staff would copy it for the church archives and return the original so we shall see. I hope for his sake he wasn’t lying to me.
One thing that was different with this 144th confirmation service was that no member read their paper at our service, not sure about the nine o clock service, but I was surprised about that. His sermon did reference a couple things that Blondie had in her paper and Blondie said that when he touched on those he looked her directly in the eyes. My wife said she recognized those words too, I got that as well when she jabbed me in the ribs, I didn’t know at the time for sure but I knew I hadn’t done anything that I needed to be jabbed for; as I was paying attention. So I kind of figured that was what it was.
You all have a blessed week, go in peace and see you back here soon. Amen.