Wednesday, May 02, 2007

Have you seen this?



I have two main problems with this commercial:

1. The implication of these commercials is that if you are a wiz at exegesis then that means you you have no idea how to reach lost people. And if you don't believe in seeker sensitive ministry then you are equated with a tightly wound dork in a bad suit? The false dichotomies abound! In my opinion these commercials are overly simplistic and present very unhelpful characterizations.

2. Christians need to spend way less time copying the culture and spend more time thinking about how we can be uniquely creative for the glory of God. No one is impressed by our feeble attempts to be "relevant" by performing a copy job that is half as good as the original.

Does anyone know who produces these?

(HT: Think Christian)

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

dude, i couldn't agree more...

i'm so sick of the parodies...

i know CCC [Dave Ferguson of multi-site fame] in Chicago produced some for the recent NNCC. i'm not a fan of this type of church. it's just a younger willow with a heart for multi-site...

over the last few months, i've seen various parodies from different places...

Anonymous said...

So tired...bad acting, bad clothes, bad plastic lawn chairs. When did being cool become a virtue? I am going to go read The Prayer of Jabez...

Doug E. said...

Wow! I hadn't seen that one. Here are my thoughts on those commercials.

http://godwardthoughts.blogspot.com/2007/04/christian-vs-christ-follower-which-is.html