Dodo Eggs

There’s a problem with large schools, churches, and bureaucracies.  In purpose, these institutions are designed to service important individual needs but sometimes fail when they grow too monstrous.  To illustrate, here are some causes and effects… 

                                    BUREAUCRACIES
Cause- Fantastically fragmented and overlapping responsibilities allows service providers to blame shift their lack of effort and efficiency to the institution in general.

Effect- Ben Teply’s application for a lost title on the family’s 1984 Mercury Capri disappears into Alabama’s DOT.  Thirty-dollar application fee’s last received distress signal was heard fifteen months ago.

Calls are made resulting in an automated response, “Press one to speak with someone who’s on their lunch break.  Press two if you want to hear this menu again in Spanish.”

                                          SCHOOLS
Cause-Huge campus allows school boards to cram up to two thousand five hundred kids onto one campus.  Fire drills resemble crowds outside Wal-Mart the day after Thanksgiving.

Effect-Only the extremely gifted make the football, basketball, baseball, wrestling, track, cross country, soccer, band, badminton, backgammon, freeze tag, and papier-mâché teams.  Every normal kid must resort to personalizing his or her locker and playing Dragon Breath with their loser friends.  (The sequel, Dragon’s Pits, is good too!)

                                         CHURCHES
Cause-A church is considered a success if it grows to tremendous size even though Scripture stresses no such thing.  (Read DodoEggs.com, Chapter 5, Verse 11- “Thou shalt not serve powdered donuts with out sanctified napkins.”)

Effect-During the fall months of 1998, Matt Teply wore the exact same outfit to his fiancé’s seven thousand member church seven Sundays in a row.  I’m sure no one cared.  (The reader may wonder how Matt gets by with such bad behavior.  We weren’t married yet.)

Moral – Bureaucracies will always be what they are but such oversight doesn’t need to plague churches and schools.  Schools should be limited to no more than five hundred students and churches must ensure all members are plugged into small groups.  It seems counter intuitive, but the smaller the school or church the greater impact it can have on a person.

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