Generous Tipping Experiment

I was eating dinner the other night with 4 pastors.  In past conversations with them, I told them about the $100 tip for the $10 haircut and the lessons I had learned through that experience.  At the end of our dinner together, I paid for the meal (have to use my expense account for something).  However, to my surprise, each of them took out around $20 in cash and left it for the waitress who had been serving us.  So the total tip came out to about $80 on a $125 meal.  It was great to experience the joy of generosity with these men.  And I also marvel at how  small acts of generosity can spur others on to other small (and not so small) acts of generosity.  I also wished I could have told the waitress that these men were pastors……both to debunk her possible thinking that Christians are stingy + to counter the view of many in our society that all preachers want is money from people.  Maybe the preachers on TV want something from you but most of the pastors I hang out with seem to jump at the chance to give to others when presented with the opporunity.