http://theologshmeolog.wordpress.com I want to take theology seriously, but not myself. Hence it is not “Theology Shmeology.” Hopefully this site will help to increase a love for Christian theology & Christ. A very simple, worthy goal, no? Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:37:48 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://theologshmeolog.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/thoughts-on-marketing-the-church/#comment-8 Twitted by doc_newman Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:37:48 +0000 http://theologshmeolog.wordpress.com/?p=67#comment-8 [...] This post was Twitted by doc_newman [...] [...] This post was Twitted by doc_newman [...]

]]> http://theologshmeolog.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/thoughts-on-marketing-the-church/#comment-7 theologshmeolog Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:23:04 +0000 http://theologshmeolog.wordpress.com/?p=67#comment-7 Joshua, Thanks for the encouragement. I have thought much on the fundamentalists and how we (I am a fundamentalist, separatist Baptist pastor) market the Gospel. While we were carping at Seeker sensitives, we were having bus captains swallow goldfish during Sunday AM service if they brought in X amount of kids. While we said the New Evangelicals were compromising with their music, our Youth Pastors were shaving their heads and dying their hair blue if their teens brought X amount of visitors. While Bill Hybels, etc., marketed the Gospel to 18 - 44 year olds, we rounded off the sharp edges of the Gospel and produced church buildings full of Easy-Believism "believers." It goes on...I am encouraged by the number of men I know in the pastorate who are eschewing the worldly ways in which we were taught to do Gospel work, and are returning to more careful theology and praxis. Joshua,
Thanks for the encouragement. I have thought much on the fundamentalists and how we (I am a fundamentalist, separatist Baptist pastor) market the Gospel. While we were carping at Seeker sensitives, we were having bus captains swallow goldfish during Sunday AM service if they brought in X amount of kids. While we said the New Evangelicals were compromising with their music, our Youth Pastors were shaving their heads and dying their hair blue if their teens brought X amount of visitors. While Bill Hybels, etc., marketed the Gospel to 18 – 44 year olds, we rounded off the sharp edges of the Gospel and produced church buildings full of Easy-Believism “believers.” It goes on…I am encouraged by the number of men I know in the pastorate who are eschewing the worldly ways in which we were taught to do Gospel work, and are returning to more careful theology and praxis.

]]> http://theologshmeolog.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/thoughts-on-marketing-the-church/#comment-6 Joshua Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:28:15 +0000 http://theologshmeolog.wordpress.com/?p=67#comment-6 Very well said! Not that I would accuse fundamentalists of "marketing" the church :-P Very well said! Not that I would accuse fundamentalists of “marketing” the church

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