Comments on: Signs That Summer Is Upon Us

By: Secret Latte

Secret Latte — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:26:38 +0000

I think I know what one church meant when they put on their sign “Just because you don’t smoke doesn’t mean you won’t smoke in hell,” but I fail to see how that would attract people.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:55:57 +0000

We stopped putting witty sayings because it was becoming tedious. All we have on our sign now is the service times. I have seen one sign that said “God Could Not Love You Any Less”. While I think I know what they were trying to say (well atleast I hope I do) that obviously could be taken another way. Kyle not every SEC town does that I live in Fayetteville, AR.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:43:56 +0000

I think the signs can be a great presentation of a churches’ personality. It’s likely to be the only regularly occuring connenction a non-attender has with the church. That said, less is probably more, unless you’re like some of the great churches I’ve seen with a witty comment 52 weeks a year. It’s the only thing I ever new about them. But if mean-spirited or condemning.. I can’t imagine it does much good. My all time favorite was on a back road in rural kentucky: “Church like it Used to Be.” Unfortunately my camera was out of batteries!
There are some um, unique signs in Knoxville Tn (home of UT): “Jesus, the Greatest Volunteer”. and similar.. do they do this in every SEC town?

By: barton damer

barton damer — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:49:31 +0000

Don’t forget the picture of the “senior” Pastor should go on there too.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:59:49 +0000

To me – church signs just usually invite danger. Either the sign is cheesy so no one will come or the sign is offensive so no one will come, or the sign is pretty good – but no one comes anyway (only once in my almost 5-year period at a church with a sign did I hear of anyone coming because of the sign)

I think they’re good for putting service information on (theme, time, etc) but nothing else.