Businesses have it clean -- you have to have a certain amount of customers against a certain amount of product profit margin so as to pay for costs and have something left. If church property were taxed, then our overhead would be even more than maintaining buildings and paying staff. We'd have to have a certain ratio of customers to giving to handle the additional expenses. We'd have to have a few members who give a lot or a lot of members who give some (or something in-between these two). Tax or no, it is still the same -- you have to pay for overhead. Or else.
Now one of the things that businesses do is this. They say, "If we bought this land, paid for this buidling, invested in all the machinery, and we have to pay for all that whether it operates making our product for one hour a week or 148 hours a week, let's make it operate nearer to 148 than to one." You produce more, make more money and get in front of the overhead costs.
The church has property, buildings, and staff and so often operates only for one to two hours per week generally. Wow.
If a business nets a $100/square foot producing only one hour a week and nets $100,000/square foot producing 148 hours a week, then they are going to go towards 148 hours a week.
What if the church tried to get more out of what it has paid for? I once belonged to a church which had an Anglo contemporary service, an Anglo raditional service, a Korean service, a Brazilian service, and then was considering an Arabic service. They had already paid for the building and the organ and it got used five times on a Sunday. And the $35 bouquet of flowers went through five services! Instead of $35/service the flowers went for $7/service. See? And in the same way the ministry per square foot went up. The amount of people touched by the tool of that facility went up.
Just an idea ... let's think about how to increase our ministry per square foot.
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