Here’s what I’ve got so far:
I’m gonna pick a church, prayerfully. I’m gonna show up for a Sunday service, early, try to meet the first people there to open.
I’m gonna tell them they’re being audited. I’m gonna tell them it’s not their choice. I’m gonna tell them the one choice they do have is whether they participate in the audit, invite me in, allow me to record ask questions… Perform an audit.
What sort of questions will I be asking? Things like, how many square feet of facilities does the church have, how many people attend every week, how how many hours and days does all that property sit empty every week?
OK, so you have a food closet, you make people come to you once a month on a particular Thursday, or you have a dedicated person taking phone calls to schedule deliveries that your prisoners then take out all free of charge?
How many retired parishioners do you have? What do they do with their free time every day?
How many committees do you have dedicated to tackling issues in your neighborhood?
How many widows? How many orphans?
That kind of stuff.
And all that is if they go along with the audit, cheerfully and in good faith.
They can go the other way, decline to participate. In which case I will audit from the outside. I’ll record their services from the sidewalk. I’ll audit their public financial records, their Facebook posts, the Facebook posts of their parishioners. I’ll gather my own data and present it completely one-sided.
I’m gonna broadcast and publish the whole thing online. I can publish everything to my own platform. Thanks to thousands of hours of work, Thousands and thousands of real dollars, I can’t be censored.
*All of this is theoretical and subject to change
