Real Live Preacher defines “denomination.”

Let us take care of things for you, sweethearts. Don’t worry your pretty little heads, but do keep sending your money because we did 125,247 good things for Jesus last year, the highlights of which can be seen on our 16 minute video promo. With your help, next year will be even better, praise the Lord. Next year we might do over 150,000 good things for Jesus.

Later he writes:

The goal is a magical balance. You want the lay people to be impressed enough to send money, but you want them intimidated enough to stay out of the way. It’s good if you can flash a lot of Ph.Ds and some unthinkably complex flow-charts.

His solution?

If we quit managing thousands of good things and did one good thing, I think we would know the joy of work and the pleasure of rest. We would know the rhythm of week and Sabbath, of work and play, of night and day.And if all of us were doing one good thing, wouldn’t that add up to millions of good things?

And isn’t that what we said we wanted all along?

Amen and amen. Now if we could just talk about committee meetings…