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What are some of the goofy church signs you have seen?

kgoodyear 6 Feb 10
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Lol ... my Dad was a Sunday School superintendent back in the 1980s and he put this exact sign up. Bad "Dad puns" probably originate with fundamentalist churches, for all I know.

This particular sentiment is a quasi-witty way of reminding people to be intellectually enslaved by the mothership. Habits like daily prayer and Bible study must be cultivated to innoculate people against "mere human wisdom" and "worldly philosophies". Weakness, in this context, is doubt, which, it's taught, grows like weeds thanks to the wiles of the devil (it couldn't possibly be because their teachings have no basis in reailty, after all).

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i never see goofy church signs. admittedly i have never been a christian so i have never gone to churches and don't get out much so i don't get driven past many, but i do sometimes get driven past one near my home that says something like "immigrants welcome here." i can't say i find that goofy at all!

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The sign is from Calvary Chapel, not St John's Episcopal. There is a lot of variations in what's emphasized (or if you want to be snarky, cherry picked) by different denominations. Liberal Christians are not that different from Reform Jews in their general attitudes and how they interact with the secular world and the politics they tend to be friendly to. Its the authoritarians who dream of turning America into a theocracy who are the problem. Independently governed congregations like your "Calvary Chapels" and "Podunk Bible Churches" and "Community Baptist", churches in the Holiness tradition, and your megachurches presided over by televangelist types, are the real problem, for the most part.

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It maybe lost on the Americans here but years ago a local church St. Peters placed a large sign outside their church reading
JESUS SAVES!
I took only one night for some to add in spray paint
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Yep. easy to say for someone who don't have to pay taxes.

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I took this photo. The church is in Port Orange, Florida.

And take note, and marvel at how many services they seriously expect people to attend. 3 times on Sunday and again on Wednesday night. Sunday, is, after all, the Lord's day, and he's a jealous god. And you need to get refueled at mid-week, or doubts may surface by Friday.

@mordant No, that's just giving people a choice of when to attend. Plus Protestant churches have had something mid-week since forever.

@DeStijl It can be, but in the church I grew up in, you were expected to attend at least Sunday morning (preferably coming early for Sunday School) and evening and preferably Wednesday evening as well. Otherwise you invariably got those smarmy, "so where WERE you last Sunday??" questions from the regulars. You signaled your devotion and commitment by coming to 3 services a week. My church only offered 2 services plus Sunday School on Sunday so you only attended in two batches, so there's that.

In my experience a second service was added in the morning if the church couldn't physically accommodate everyone at once.

@mordant I'm sure that's not the general rule.

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