if you show it... they will come!

ok... so i don't rant and rave much, especially on my blog... i think that the last time i did was about that ridiculous evangelism ducky thing, but i just seen something that i just cannot pass by that easily.

first off... let me preface this post by saying that i do not think it ok, nor responsible to "bash" things or people in general, let alone in a public venue as this... so with that qualification i am not bashing this, i am simply questioning the approach used.

ok, here we go... in staff meeting yesterday, one of the pastors had some promotional material for a new movie coming out in his stack of papers that caught my eye... i asked to see the material and to my wide-eyed astonishment this is what the title of the promo material said in big bold letters... "if you show it, they will come."

is that right?

really... how long is it going to take us to realize that gimmicks DON'T work and the longer we continue to try, the more deceptive this disenfranchised culture will become?

SERIOUSLY...

"if you show it, they will come" - they may come, but they're not coming back!
i am all for creative opportunities that are becoming more available to us to use for ministry... movies have at times a great opportunity to visually add or show truth in a creative way.

so, my beef is not at all with this movie... but absolutely with the mindset and approach to produce and program people to come, all the while in scripture we are told to GO... literally translated, "as you go" - meaning that in the way that you live your life...

when we live this way, talk this way, a "funny thing" begins to happen... "they" do begin to come, because it's real and authentic.

we are called to be different and go...

go...
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