Winning?
Posted by Todd Rhoades in Outreach on Apr 14th, 2011 | 8 commentsOK… Just wondering… Great idea or horrible idea?
I have friends in leadership at NorthRidge. Â Personally, I like it. Â Knowing the folks there means that they will do a great day of proclaiming Christ. Â I think it will be a big WIN for them.
What do you think? Â Many I’ve read online aren’t diggin’ this campaign.
Would you do it in your church?
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Thanks,
Todd
8 Responses to “ “Winning?”
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I could see our church doing it – we are doing “Most Interesting Man In the World,” spoofs after all. http://vimeo.com/22183575
I do NOT like using your marketing to make fun of somebody who is in tons of pain, regardless of how he appears.
No, sir, I do NOT like it.
I don’t see them as making fun of him, just using him to get people’s attention.
Having said that… we have such a creative God and creative Holy Spirit to look to for inspiration, do we REALLY have to copy Charlie Sheen??? i just think sometimes we try too hard to be relevant that we look ridiculous.
A Easter program with a pop culture tagline which will be obsolete in a month? Kind of tacky in my book. Besides, Easter isn’t about “winning”; Jesus has already decisively WON.
corny
LOVE IT! Chance to show the world we’re not boring and irrelevant with our proverbial head stuck in the sand. It says “hey world, we actually SEE you out there!”
Northridge Church promo + Monday Morning Insight + Controversy = WINNING!
(Now if somebody would just switch the communion beverage from Welch’s to Tiger’s Blood… that would really be something!)
naaaaaa not for us…. but I am sure Northridge has sunday school classes larger than my whole church ~ so who am I to judge….
I always feel a little conflicted when the church uses cheesy tag-lines but this one is a little different and I think I’m feeling a pinch for a different reason. Charlie Sheen single-handedly seemed to change the definition of ‘winning’ to mean losing (in our neck of the woods). In my sphere of influence, people started saying “winning” only after doing some sort of ‘epic fail’ type of thing where they obviously and pitifully missed the mark. As soon as they made an error they would say, “winning” to get a laugh (since Charlie Sheen kept saying “winning” when it was so obvious to everyone else that he was so far from winning that it was literally sad). I would be afraid that this would have the opposite effect of actually making the church look like they didn’t get that ‘winning’ means losing…so instead of looking culturally relevant they would look like they didn’t ‘get it’. That’s just me though-that word might have a different association in that area so I would still try to trust that their leadership did their homework to see how the community would view it. Around here that sign wouldn’t be wise-where they are, it might be perfect.