{"id":1070,"date":"2007-04-02T12:58:28","date_gmt":"2007-04-02T19:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2007\/04\/02\/would-you-join-if-i-gave-you-935usd\/"},"modified":"2007-04-02T13:37:09","modified_gmt":"2007-04-02T20:37:09","slug":"would-you-join-if-i-gave-you-935usd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2007\/04\/02\/would-you-join-if-i-gave-you-935usd\/","title":{"rendered":"Would you join if I gave you $935USD?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More numbers from conference:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$400 per month (cost mishies pay per month)<\/li>\n<li>(multiplied by)<\/li>\n<li>12 Months<\/li>\n<li>(multiplied by)<\/li>\n<li>53,164 Missionaries<\/li>\n<li>(divided by)<\/li>\n<li>72,845 Converts Baptisms<\/li>\n<li>(equals)<\/li>\n<li>$935 per Convert Baptism<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Do you think a person could get more or less baptisms handing out $900 in a third-world country if you joined their church?<\/p>\n<p>Missions must be more about the missionary, because it&#8217;s an awfully expensive way to get converts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More numbers from conference: $400 per month (cost mishies pay per month) (multiplied by) 12 Months (multiplied by) 53,164 Missionaries &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2007\/04\/02\/would-you-join-if-i-gave-you-935usd\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Would you join if I gave you $935USD?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Would you join if I gave you $935USD?<\/title>\n<meta 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