Prayer Pitch Meeting - 1

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so you have a ministry we can monetize yes sir I do I was thinking we monetize prayer oh you mean we pray for money

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I do that all the time already I know I was thinking we charge people for prayers you know like when someone comes to you when they're hurting and broken and need prayer but then you tell them

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I'll pray for you but it's gonna cost you so how much we talking like $4 .99 a prayer $9 .99

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a prayer or do we charge based on the length of the prayer I'm glad you asked sir here's what

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I've come up with if you're just a normal person like not a minister you start at the price of a cup of coffee so if you're in New York that would be about $12 you see if you frame it in terms of a cup of coffee people are willing to buy anything they're like a cup of coffee that sounds so nice and inoffensive there's no way anything could be wrong if it's just the price of a cup of coffee everyone can afford that right you my man are brilliant so what if the prayer goes on for a long time well if you go on past five minutes you start charging 50 cents per minute but once you're up past 10 minutes it's gonna be $2 per extra minute you've got a value people's time you know oh

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I know but it doesn't seem lucrative enough how are we gonna make it more sustainable ah well we can upsell it in a few ways for example if you're a minister you can charge more how much well pretty much whatever you want you know what the good book says the prayer of a pastor availeth much that does sound like the

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Bible so what else can we do to upsell this thing well for the charismatic churches we can slap the label of prophetic prayer on it and then

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I figure we can charge hundreds of dollars for it so what makes it prophetic I don't know but it sounds good so is that a kind of prayer we find in the

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Bible it might be fair enough as long as it makes the big bucks hey maybe we can throw in another premium category like anointed prayer

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I love the way you think sir thanks but now I'm worried it's gonna be really hard to get people on board with this actually it's gonna be super easy barely an inconvenience oh really yeah if anyone challenges us we simply quote first Timothy 518 at them you shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain yeah baby that'll teach him to challenge us there's no other way to interpret that verse right nope

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Paul wanted to give Timothy a blanket justification for monetizing every ministry imaginable there's no way he could have meant anything else wow it's a good thing you know your

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Bible so well people really ought to take the word more seriously you know I couldn't agree more but now that we're talking about the

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Bible I seem to vaguely remember Jesus getting really mad because people were trying to sell stuff in the temple what if people bring that up when we're trying to sell them prayers it doesn't apply to us today really it has absolutely zero implications for anything we do today nada nothing but a verse about an ox does listen sir

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I'm gonna need you to get all the way off my back about Jesus and other stuff in the Bible okay let me get off of that thing it's important to keep our eyes on the prize sir and cast off anything that hinders so we can make a decent living as the good book says but we probably should be careful not to sound greedy about this you're absolutely right sir the best way to spin it is as a passionate desire to help people that's what prayer is all about after all good thinking and we need to make sure that people understand that if they're not paying for prayer they're not gonna value prayer if they're not paying for prayer they've got no skin in the game they've got no reason to have faith and well they're not taking the whole thing very seriously you preach it brother you're confident that there's nothing else in the

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Bible that might clash with what we're trying to do here there's literally no way for me to check that really no and we need to keep reminding people that this is about sustainability how will prayer keep happening 20 or even 50 years from now if no one pays for it prayer takes time and time is money that's what

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I was gonna say I guess we've both got the same spirit must be a confirmation that we're doing the right thing no doubt about it sir when the money starts flowing nobody will be more prayerful than us we'll be the ultimate prayer warriors ah

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I have a feeling this is gonna work out really well hey everyone if that video made you curious confused or even offended you you're not alone so let me point you to some free resources that will help you dig deeper into these issues links down below first head on over to the

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