There are some humorous stories in ‘Christian circles’ (I’d thought the word ‘square’ might be more appropriate 🙂 about what John Stott called the ‘dabster method’, and before that waas commonly called ‘the promise-box method’:

Like (shuts eyes and points):

‘Judas went and hanged himself’

Oops, second try:

‘Go thou and do likewise!’

Gotta do better than that:

‘What thou doest, do quickly!’