Do you think it is possible that the goofy marquee messages on church signs could actually be keeping people FROM COMING to church? I think the Kingdom of God would be better off without marquee church signs.
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God reads “knee-mail”
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CH_RCH – the only thing missing is U
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Feel taken for granted? Imagine how God feels.
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Turn or burn… (I prefer shake n’ bake)
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Our church is better than your church
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Wal-Mart is not the only saving place
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Read the Bible – it will scare the hell out of you
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Under Same Management for 2000 years
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Members expected; guests welcomed
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If you have a tattoo or a nipple piercing…STAY OUT! (O.K…I’ve not actually seen that one
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I know people mean well with the marquees…. But, they definitely need to go. Our cleverness (or, lack thereof in some cases) is not what changes lives. It’s 100% God.
So, let’s have a marquee t-p party. The church seriously needs to lighten up and get the focus off tradition. Gotta shake it up from time to time.
Tattoos and/or nipple piercings welcome.
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By: JR on February 28, 2008
at 5:49 pm
Oh….And, on the subject of tattoos….
“Tattooed men who are not behind bars are either latent criminals or degenerate aristocrats. If someone who is tattooed dies in freedom, then he does so a few years before he would have committed murder”.
(Adolf Loos, 1962 Ornament und Verbrechen. Samtliche Schriften, edited by F. Gluck. Vienna: Herold, 1962
Nice to know that once I get my tattoo I’m dooming myself to a life of violence, rebellion and hatred….
So, even if I have all sorts of metal hanging from my face and some ink blots on my body, you’ll still love me?
By: JR on February 28, 2008
at 6:06 pm
JR – nice quote!! That’s got to be a classic. I’ve wondered where all of those urges have come from lately…now I know.
In answer to your last question:
http://sambarrington.wordpress.com/2007/08/17/braveheart-tattoo/
http://sambarrington.wordpress.com/2007/08/19/inkd-leaving-your-permanent-mark/
http://sambarrington.wordpress.com/2007/09/07/christ-and-culturepart-4/
By: sambarrington on February 28, 2008
at 6:14 pm
Those signs are just like bumper stickers… I have yet to read one that moves me to think or do something different.
My vote: the marquee must go.
By: K. Rex Butts on February 29, 2008
at 7:58 am
Ah yes. The stupid, ’sounds-like-it-was-born-in-a-fortune-cookie’ marquees. I can’t think of anything more off-putting to add to the front of a church. The only things worse are those qoutes on billboards that say equally stupid things like “I’m Watching You – God” or “What part of Thou Shalt Not didn’t you understand – God”.
By: Lindsey on February 29, 2008
at 11:07 am
Thank you!
By: Doug on February 29, 2008
at 11:52 am