At the end of one Sunday service presentation David was fielding ‘thank yous’ and questions on the presentation he had just given. One regular attendee of this particular church asked if he could take David’s photo for a report that he would write on his blog. With some reservations David obliged but asked that a link be made to CMI from the blog. Within a couple of days, the photo and a harsh critique of David’s presentation appeared on this person's blog.
However, the critique provided CMI with a great opportunity to address the many misconceptions about our presentations, and in particular why we place such importance on resources. Read Wolf among the fold? Refuting a critic of a CMI church talk.
2 comments:
I've written several responses to CMI's critique of my blog entry. Please don't rush to judgement without reading them.
http://cneil.blogspot.com/2008/05/on-profit-motives.html
http://cneil.blogspot.com/2008/05/am-i-wolf-among-fold.html
I've read your weblogs but it appears that you got many of your "facts" wrong.
What you've said is true - the organisation itself may be non-profit but the people belonging to it may be profit-oriented. I think some clear examples would be the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) and the City Harvest Church, where the top-level people are paid outrageously high salaries and money is spent on senseless things, such as a golden tap for the CEO, in the case of NKF.
As far as I can see, in the case of CMI, there's no conclusive proof that any of them harbour a profit motive.
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