One of mine and Dawn's pet peeves is church signs. They are so often irrelevant and irreverant. They often make me wonder why anyone would ever go to that church. There's a church across from ours that consistently puts some of the dumbest sayings on their sign. Well, I found one last night that has reached the top of my list. It's this one posted above. It's not the worst one because it advertises hymns, as I like hymns. It makes the top of the list because of who it's advertising for. It's advertising for people who already attend church somewhere who may not be getting their needed quota of hymns each Sunday. It in essence says, "we want Christians". "We need people who tithe and have their lives already together". It really upsets me when I see this kind of stuff. On the other side of the sign, which I didn't get a picture of, it says, "In case of nucular attack, prayer in schools will no longer be banned". What?!? If a church is going to have a sign and not use it for advertising of events and the such, then they should leave it blank or put something like Jesus loves you. Nothing more nothing less. I wonder if the diciples and Jesus wore t-shirts that said things like "make your eternal reservations now, Smoking or non-smoking" or "there are no athesists in Hell" or "WARNING-Exposure to the Son, may prevent burning". What non-sense. Here's a link to Rick's site to listen to a song about signs it's called "we lost the G" and it's the last one on the page.
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Just because "Christians" go to church, doesn't mean they have it all together. Just a thought...
I didn't mean to imply that we, as Christians, have it all together, rather I meant that that's the impression that advertisements like this imply. It's the implication that "we don't want to fish, we want them served to us because cleaning them would be too hard or messy". It's an attitude the has permeated the the church for many years and it's a wrong one.
I see.
Guess what! I have july 4-7 off, and so does my scott! We'll have LOTS of fun together! Wish Dawn could come too... I miss you guys.
That sign is great! I would love to see Jesus in a t-shirt though. It'd say "I'm 'da man"
No...I don't know what some people are thinking when they put those things on their sign. It's a representation of what their church is all about, and apparently that one is all about reaching those who know and love the old hymns. What about the people who drive by and say, "what in the world are hymns?" So I agree that there are a lot more important things they could be saying.
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