What can “Celebrity Apprentice” teach us about ministry?
I’ve been waiting for this day since last summer.
NBC’s “Celebrity Apprentice” is back on! It’s one of the very few shows that I watch anymore. I learn so much from it.
If you watched last night, you saw that the men (Rock Solid) and the women, (Tenacity) had to sell hamburgers for charity. They were both given very prime spots in New York City to set up their restaurants.
The men set their price point at $100 per burger minimum with a rissotto dish that was $250.
The women set their price point at $25. Both teams could take “tips” for charity in addition to the burger tab.
The women work their hineys off, so did the men. But, the men beat them by $25,000… almost double!!
Ok, Kevin.. What’s your point?…What does “The Celebrity Apprentice” have to do with ministry?
Hard work does NOT neccesarily equal success!- (if it did, most of us would have more ministry opportunities than we could handle. We’d also have plenty of money to support many other ministries to boot.)
If the women on “team tenacity” could have gotten EVERY patron off the street at $25 (plus tip) they still would not have even come close to the men.
The problem with the women on this particular task was that they terribly underestimated their “peeps”, their patrons, their supporters… at one point, Cindy Lauper even called them poor!
Here’s my question to you..
- are you working hard on something that’s not really bringing in the results that you would like to see?
- are you underestimating the value of your “peeps”?
- are you giving them enough opportunities (products) to be able to contribute to your ministry?
I challenge you to take a long hard look at HOW you are approaching ministry. You might just find that you are only offering the $25 hamburger with things like this.
- Taking dates out of “your need to feel busy” when you could use the down time to build something that could help people more easily and more deeply.
- Producing a CD or DVD just because its been a year since your last one.
- NOT building your website so that it attracts community and conversation because you think it’s too expensive.
I’m not beating anybody up. I’m analyzing myself daily.
Tell me what you have done lately that you are wondering if it really even works anymore… or tell me what’s something inexpensive that’s very high value to your “peeps”.
As always, your comments are valuable! (so comment… or “You’re fired”!) 
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