Church Marquees
Has anyone ever noticed the variety of things people put on their church marquees? Sometimes they're catchy, sometimes they're funny, and sometimes just downright cruel. Sometimes I get angry at the things people put up, and tonight probably topped them all. I'll keep the name of the church anonymous, but their marquee said the following:
"Read the Bible. It will scare the hell out of you."
Let me ask this question. If you were an unbeliever, would that make you want to visit that church? Furthermore, would it make you want to become a Christian? What a TERRIBLE way to represent Jesus and the faith. I'm not saying that the reality of hell should be eliminated from the gospel, because the gospel is both beautiful and offensive, but is this not downright hateful? What does everyone think of this?
"Read the Bible. It will scare the hell out of you."
Let me ask this question. If you were an unbeliever, would that make you want to visit that church? Furthermore, would it make you want to become a Christian? What a TERRIBLE way to represent Jesus and the faith. I'm not saying that the reality of hell should be eliminated from the gospel, because the gospel is both beautiful and offensive, but is this not downright hateful? What does everyone think of this?
posted by Rick at 9:03 PM
2 Comments:
I'm with you on that one Rick! I'd quit reading church marquees at one time because either they were like the one you mentioned, were too polarized one way or the other, or just lame. Although there is a church here in town that catches my attention with their sign every time I drive by it. Most of the time their sayings don't look like they came out of a church sign book, but were reflective thoughts by the pastor possibly that engage you to think about something in your life, while not trying to "scare the HELL out of you."
We're too wrapped up in our Christian Marketing. Maybe we can read the Bible and have that scared out of us.
"If you come to this church all of your wildest dreams will come true. And yes, that includes lesbians"
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