The Stupid Church Sign of the Week Award goes to Peace Lutheran Church on Route 66 north of Defiance, Ohio. Peace Lutheran Church is a member of the American Association of Lutheran Churches. It is a Fundamentalist church. (we visited this church a few years ago)
The Peace Lutheran Church sign says:
Jesus said, I’ll Be Back
At least the Terminator shows up every few years. Jesus left the building two thousand years ago and he hasn’t returned. I think it is safe to say that he is NOT coming back.
Even when I was a Christian, I did not like signs that attempted to hijack movie or advertising lines and repurpose them for religious use. You know, like… This Blood is for You or Jesus is my Home Boy.
The Rock Church, located in Birmingham, Alabama, is catching some flak for a billboard they put up recently next to a local strip club. Here’s a picture of the billboard:
Hebrews 12:1 says,
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us. (New Living Translation)
Here’s the pastor telling the church about the billboard:
A new exercise class, Pole Fitness for Jesus, is inviting Christian women in a small Texas town to spin without sin for the Lord.
“God gives us these bodies, and they are supposed to be our temples and we are supposed to take care of them,” instructor Crystal Dean told ABC affiliate KTRK-TV. “And that’s what we are doing.”
For one Sunday each month, Dean teaches free classes to Christian women who bring in their church programs.
There is biblical approval of mixing religion with song and dance, namely, Psalm 149:3: “Let them praise His name with dancing; Let them sing praises to Him with timbrel and lyre.”
For critics and skeptics who find it difficult to merge churchgoing Christians with limber pole dancers, religious scholars point out that Christians have been adjusting their moral obligations to the modern world for the last half century. There are Christian tattoo parlors, books about Christian dieting (Thin for Him, Fit for My King), and even Christian sex manuals. On the scale of shocking modern activities for Christians, Thomas Tweed, a professor with the University of Texas, rates the pole dancing classes as “mildly surprising.
“This is just another attempt to think through how to live a full Christian life,” said Tweed.
“Some people of course would say that this is not the way; that it’s too vulgar, it’s too crass, it’s inappropriate,” Tweed added. “But I can imagine some Christians saying if it actually brings a husband and wife together as Christians to deepen the marriage bond, that actually it’s okay.”
Student Says Pole Dancing Class Brings Her Closer to God
Dean and her students say the class is indeed just another opportunity to worship God and practice their faith. The students dance to contemporary Christian music.
“I do feel a spiritual connection whenever you have the music on and it’s singing about lifting you up and being closer to God,” Tiffany Booth, a student, told KTRK-TV. “You do feel that.”
The Stupid Church Sign of the Week Award goes to St John’s Christian Church, Archbold, Ohio, also known as the church on the corner whose cornerstone is Christ. (formerly a United Church of Christ affiliated church)
One of my spies sent me a text detailing the latest bit of brilliant prose on St John’s church sign:
People Use Duct Tape to Fix Everything, God Used Nails
The Stupid Church Sign of the Week Award goes to St John’s Christian Church, Archbold, Ohio, also known as the church on the corner whose cornerstone is Christ. (formerly a United Church of Christ affiliated church)
One of my spies sent me a text detailing the latest bit of brilliant prose on St John’s church sign:
The Tomb is Empty so You don’t Have to Be
The thinking here is that anyone who does not have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ is empty. Non-Christians are empty people living meaningless lives, with a God-shaped vacuüm in their lives. True love, true peace, and true purpose in life begins, continues, and ends with Jesus.
And Christians wonder why non-Christians, atheists in particular, are hostile towards them.
Easter is coming soon. I am sure there will be plenty more stupid signs like the one above.
Jesus left the building two thousand years ago and he hasn’t returned. I think it is safe to say that he is NOT coming back.
One of my spies sent me a text detailing today’s little ditty:
