The Stealer-Sensitive Church

Posted by Scott McClellan on April 22nd, 2008 at 3:17 pm

Did you hear the story about Kinetic Church in Charlotte, NC? A few weeks ago, a thief stole a trailer containing 75% of the church’s equipment. Obviously, the church body took the loss hard. But what’s interesting are the ways in which Kinetic Church responded through both old media (these billboards) and new media (the YouTube video below). What do you think about Kinetic Church’s campaign to communicate with the person or persons who have done them harm?

Update: In a coincidental turn of events, Church Marketing Sucks posted about this same story this morning. Check out Joshua Cody’s take over at CMS.

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9 Responses to “The Stealer-Sensitive Church”

I applaud them. What a grand opportunity to speak to the community. I’m sure it will be difficult to operate without their normal resources but God will provide and they have the community’s ear – which is most important.

By the way, LOVED the title – I hope you don’t mind me “stealing” it. :-O

posted at 4:00 pm on April 22nd, 2008 by Terrace Crawford

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posted at 4:55 pm on April 22nd, 2008 by This is Awesome!

That’s wonderful. Indescribably wonderful.

posted at 9:13 pm on April 22nd, 2008 by Matt

These guys are having a much bigger impact than just with the theif(s). My brother lives down in Charlotte, does not follow Christ, and was super impressed by the new interview the pastor did and how he just wants to take the dude out to eat with no strings attached. Awesome stuff.

posted at 6:39 am on April 23rd, 2008 by Chris S.

I’m with everyone. Nice video. Good hearts. *applause* … but weirded out by the floating-head-look to the clip. If I could just miss the big picture for a moment … it’s annoying.

posted at 7:29 am on April 23rd, 2008 by Lex

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posted at 7:29 am on April 23rd, 2008 by (thief) « clearlychaos

[...] Kinetic, Thieves I’m sure most of you have seen this, but if you don’t know what’s going on with Kinetic Church in Charlotte, NC … you are missing out. I pray that all of our churches have leaders who make [...]

posted at 2:01 pm on April 23rd, 2008 by The Epic move of the month « To Be The Man

Wow! This is what Jesus would do. A radical witness. Praise God.

posted at 6:03 pm on April 24th, 2008 by Mona Maynard

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posted at 3:57 pm on April 26th, 2008 by Share-it Saturday, April 26 « From The Mind of MandoRon

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