Archive for the ‘Off the Wall’ Category

off-the-wall Article
July 6, 2006

The Statue of Liberation Through Christ

You just can’t make this stuff up. 72 feet tall. Cross instead of a torch. 10 Commandments in her arm. Total cost: $260,000. It’s not quite Lady Liberty; it’s the ...

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May 11, 2006

King of the Hill Goes to Church

How about a little pop culture perspective on church shopping and the ever-popular mega-church? Check out this clip of the Hill family going church shopping on King of the Hill ...

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May 2, 2006

Church Advertising Sucks Advertisement

This ad for Corner Church in Minneapolis appeared in a recent issue of The City Pages, an alternative newsweekly in the Twin Cities. A church ad proclaiming that church advertising ...

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April 24, 2006

Get In Here Ministries

As part of their latest DVD pack of videos for church use, Igniter Media has created a great example of the wrong way to do ministry: Johnny Lang & Chachi ...

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April 6, 2006

Rejected Church Slogans

Dean Lusk, worship leader at Wall Highway Baptist Church in Madison, Ala., was recently working on a new slogan for the church when inspiration struck: “I originally thought of this ...

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March 25, 2006

Church Members Beat Burglar

You don’t mess with the Church of the Nazarene in West Palm Beach, Fla. Church members were fed up after a string of burglaries, so they hid out in the ...

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off-the-wall Article
March 17, 2006

The Cross as a Giant Eyesore

West County Assembly of God Church in Town and Country, Mo. wants to put up a 99-foot cross to “give a Christian message to the people in the 164,655 vehicles ...

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March 13, 2006

Church Marketing via eBay

Here’s a new way to bring in visitors: eBay. Atheist Hemant Mehta sold his soul on eBay, offering to attend an hour of church for each $10 of the final ...

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March 13, 2006

The Cross as Advertising

Dudley Wood Methodist Church in the UK just moved to a new location and wanted to erect a cross so people would know their new location was a church. Not ...

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March 8, 2006

Go to Church, Get Free Chicken

I thought the whole church and business marketing tie-in thing would die down, but it just keeps coming. This time it’s from the business side, with a Chick-fill-A restaurant offering ...

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March 7, 2006

McPassion: The Church Marketing Parody

Just in time for Lent, the McPassion is here. For the 40 days of Lent you can screen the 4-minutes church marketing parody video online. “[Mel] Gibson’s film was the spark ...

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March 3, 2006

Church Franchising Gone Amuck

And while we’re doing satire, how about some more from Lark News: For 12 years Evergreen Christian Center was just another mega-church in Tennessee. Then the church radically changed its ministry ...

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March 3, 2006

Corporate Sponsorship for Churches

Put your pitchforks down, it’s just a spoof from a Lark News article, “Corporate Sponsorship a Boon to Church Budgets”: “This [offer] couldn’t have come at a better time,” says Jacob ...

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off-the-wall Article
February 14, 2006

Getting Wrapped Up in a Story

Whew. This whole Satan tagline and hackers story is pretty crazy. Turns out the tagline was a legitimate mistake. The hackers thing–not true. We’ve received comments from the church’s webmaster ...

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off-the-wall Article
February 12, 2006

Letting Satan Speak For Your Church

I find this hard to believe. I keep thinking I’m missing the joke, like an Onion article you mistake for real news. St. James United Church of Christ in Limerick, ...

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