And your title is...?

So there is a church right by our house (which is not where we attend church, and never having been there, I don't know anything about it) but it always has a cutesy, clever saying on its billboard sign, or whatever it's called in churchdom. This week it says "Heaven - don't miss it for the world!" Catchy? check. Clever double-meaning? check. Godly message? check. Sticks in your brain? well, I'm writing a blog about it, aren't I?

Still, it got me wondering about the guy who writes this stuff. Do they have an official position - you know, some guy whose sole job it is to sit around and think up "what do we post on our billboard this week?" And if so, what is his title? "Senior Billboard pastor?" "Head of the billboard sub-committee?" (We go to a Baptist church and I would TOTALLY believe there is a billboard sub-comittee - they have committees for everything! ;-) PS I am not knocking Baptist churches - or any churches. I just think its funny.) Is there some secret cache of church billboard sayings that your church subscribes to and you get to pick whatever fits your topic best this week? "For the low fee of $10 a month, pick from our catalogue of 1,000,000 clever billboard sayings - guaranteed to get 'em in the pews or your money back!" Does the pastor have to spend his time writing one to match his sermon - or is that job delegated to the secretary, or the associate pastor, or the guys who puts together the bulletins? And who approves it? Hmmmm...those pesky details that Sir Christopher Wren never thought about while building St. Paul's. However did those cathedrals exist before the advent of the church billboard?

Of course I don't have a picture of this billboard (that would have required the foresight for me to take a camera as I drove past the church) but he are some other funny ones I've found:

Here's a few examples of the connecting-Christ-to-your-modern-world approach:

This one is just scary (if you know me, you know how I feel about clowns. I will never ever attend this church!):

I'm not entirely sure what this one is getting at but I'm guessing attendence had been low recently:

And finally, the "you really should have proofread that" sign:

What does your church's billboard say? Check it out this week. I'm ashamed to say I have to check mine out too, because I actually have no idea what it says!