September 14, 2009
Coming Attractions
Our church shares a common parking lot with a triplex Cinema movie theater. We’re pretty compatible as neighbors since our hours of service are so different. Offering information to the community, we both have large marquee signs in front of our respective establishments to tell about events and times. This week’s line up for the movies is: Sorority Row, Julie and Julia and Inglorious Basterds. Well now…I can see that Christ’s Church of the Valley is going to be continually challenged to come up with some creative counter-culture advertising. “Here is a call for the endurance and faith of the saints.” Rev 13:10b ESV
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Gail;
-----Your church’s situation near the theatre’s billboard evidence’s I Corinthians 5:9-11. We are not taken out of the world. Nor are we commissioned to save the world. That is Jesus’ task. We are commissioned to make disciples in the world, and to be salt for it. The theatre’s displays are not an assault upon Christ’s Church of the Valley; they are just advertisements. They are also an opportunity for the church to dispense flavor, rather than attack. Keeping a sprinkle of salt in what you communicate upon your billboard would be wise, remembering that salt is a nutritional element, not a poison.
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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