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Originally Posted by CC1
While on the one hand I do understand the financial reasons for charging for the stream it does seem strange to charge for something you would think they would want as many Oneness folks as possible to see and be blessed and encouraged by.
Not exactly the same thing but years ago I was a member of a church that put on a large Easter musical with a cast of over 100 people. It was an amazing production and drew busloads of people from all over. My pastor had always had the same mindset as myself in saying he would never charge for something like that at the church.
However after two or three years of doing it he realized that because it was free a lot of people were coming back to see it two and three times. We had limited seating for around 1000 people or so and only doing three or four performances. By starting to charge it discouraged people from coming more than once so others could see it for the first time and it also brought in money to underwrite the production to make it better each year. For persons who could not afford the ticket price we had a free performance that was essentially our dress rehearsal.
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I could understand this if they were charging anything regarding a reasonable price. However, they are not doing so. This is the same problem that they have had since they started charging to attend the GC. Every year, they have raised the prices, which proceeded to suppress attendance. Then they wish to complain of an ever decreasing attendance. This will achieve the same result.
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