Church Marquees

This, I'm sad to report, is the marquee next to the church in the little town where I live. I cropped the photo to protect the guilty. Don't ask me why.

I won't even get into the ever-lingering question in my mind, 'WHY do churches feel a need to put stupid sayings on a sign in front of the building?'  Do they not want anyone at all to take God seriously?

Okay, I didn't say anything on Mothers' Day when the [same] church's marquee read, 'God couldn't be everywhere at once, so He gave us mothers.'  I did a double take and couldn't believe what I was reading - from a supposedly Gospel-teaching church. I happen to know the pastor went to seminary so he certainly should know better.

I resisted the urge to get out of the car and march into the church to voice a complaint. But I had to drive past the thing for days before it was changed to something less offensive and heretical.

But when this one (above) came on the scene a couple weeks ago, I figured the guy would surely be teaching to an empty church within a couple days. I still see cars there, though, so I'm not sure if the congregation didn't see the sign or what. Am I the only one who saw the marquee??

So maybe you're thinking, 'Chill, lady, what's the big problem? People do need to pray more.' That is certainly true. But one of the biggest problems in the church today, as I see it, is a LACK of theology. Does the pastor remember what 'theology' means?  It's the study of God, for Pete's sake.  

How can a preacher make his congregation understand that they're sinners in need of a Savior unless he first teaches them WHO GOD IS and who they are in relation to God. (Read the book of Job Chapters 38 and on if you've any question.) And if he's not doing that, then everybody might just as well skip the church service and go have a picnic in the park.

We don't need sermons that make us feel good about ourselves. We have lots of happy, self-satisfied people who will never see Jesus as their Savior, but will certainly meet Him as Judge. Pastors must teach their congregations that we have a holy God who doesn't take sin lightly, for the price of our salvation was the death of His only and sinless Son. Jesus, our risen Savior, is the only Rescue from a certain judgment to come.

I think that in the middle of the night I'll sneak away to the church marquee and switch letters so that it reads, 'We need more theology and MORE THEOLOGY.' I suppose I'll have to bring my own letters.