Charity begins with write-offs
The Road to Heaven
Religion Week
DEACON BOB BIGGBRAGG ended his Sunday school class lesson on charity and dismissed the young school boys early. They needed time to buy cokes from the vending machine he supplied the church before they took their pews for Sunday service. He donated ten percent of the proceeds to the church because he believed in charity. It was the most important lesson from the Bible.
Charity was an especially important lesson today since after the service the deacons would officially inaugurate the new Bob Biggbragg Fellowship Hall, complete with state-of-the-art kitchen, wireless connection, sound system and HDTV. Bob would never brag about the cost of his donation, but, as he told people in confidence, he wrote it off for a quarter of a million on his taxes.
The ceremony started during the service, when the Pastor begrudgingly presented Bob and his wife with a plaque honoring their donation. Begrudgingly, because the sniveling toady hated that he had to answer to the board of deacons (which Bob, being the chairman, controlled). That and the fact he was still living in a three-room parsonage and paying off student loans while Bob lived in a mansion bigger than the church.
Bob would never brag about the cost of his donation…
