A lifetime ago when I was working in Folsom Prison, I asked a soon to be paroled inmate what he was planning to do for a living when he got released. He smiled and said he was going to start a church. He didn't seem like a very religious person to me, so I asked him why. He said that being a preacher is the only job in the world, where people voluntarily come to your place of business once a week, and pay money just to listen to you say things they can read in the bible anytime. I never looked at churches the same way again after that.
A lifetime ago when I was working in Folsom Prison, I asked a soon to be paroled inmate what he was planning to do for a living when he got released. He smiled and said he was going to start a church. He didn't seem like a very religious person to me, so I asked him why. He said that being a preacher is the only job in the world, where people voluntarily come to your place of business once a week, and pay money just to listen to you say things they can read in the bible anytime. I never looked at churches the same way again after that.