Church Marketing Sucks

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Feb 20, 2005 in Church | 0 comments

Interesting Site about Church Marketing: Church Marketing Sucks

In response to one of the posts, a church adopted the slogan “now 17% less judgmental” which caused a little reaction:

We have outraged Christians that are angered that we would say that their church is judgmental and we have outraged people that we are only 17% less judgmental. When we start to talk with both of these groups I think they start to understand where we’re coming from, so let me try and explain it a little bit here.

Full response here.

The site also attacks the grandfather of evangelism, Billy Graham

Billy Graham Preaches to the Choir

I’ve been seeing Billy Graham’s face on some of the web sites I regularly visit: ChristianityToday.com and Crosswalk.com. Both are Christian sites and both are carrying ads for a Billy Graham TV special.

Let me get this straight: They’re doing a TV special to present the gospel (what else does Billy do?), so they advertise on sites with primarily Christian audiences? And there’s no ‘invite a friend’ spin to the ads, it’s just ‘watch Billy’. Seems like the BGEA is off the mark this time.

Full article here.

LifePoint

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Feb 20, 2005 in Church, Church Technology, Sheep&Goats | 1 comment

I attended a meeting for a new church that is starting in the Mission Valley area called Lifepoint. The pastor, Ken, returned to San Diego from a church he was pastoring in Georgia when his old church (here in San Diego) sold their property to plant two new churches. As I visit so many dying churches, I can only think, what would it look like if these dying churches were more active in helping new churches start? Again, without a Kingdom mentality too many people have an ‘us versus them’ mentality when it comes to church.

Songs I’ve been listening to…

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Feb 18, 2005 in Culture | 1 comment

Kings of Leon – Bucket (video)
Teitur – Sleeping With The Lights On (streamed)
Pinback Fortress

since we’re talking car decals

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Feb 18, 2005 in Culture | 0 comments

Top anti-christian bumper stickers. Do these make you mad? Is there truth to these observations?:

Score one for Darwin

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Feb 17, 2005 in Culture | 4 comments

Great sarcasm…the battle over the bumper continues as the gauntlet is thrown down. It’s going to be funny seeing how our ‘all-to-eager track-passing’ brothers in Christ will answer this one. Maybe Jesus with a sword coming out of his mouth? It will have to be half of the back of someone’s car. With the level of cheese on christian t-shirts I’m sure they will out-do even our wildest expectations. (Thanks to groovingdan and the Holy Observer for the find.)