Diary of a Young Pastor

Ok… I’m going to say it…

I have never liked church signs.  Yeah, my church has one - and no, I don’t like it.

Why?  Because they are dangerous.  They are the only window through which our community outside the door sees us.  They have become the statements of who we are as a church - and what do we choose to do with them?  Either put up some kind of cheesy saying like, “Where do you prefer to sit in eternity?  Smoking or Non,” or we do something stupid, hurtful, derogatory, and even immoral.  In my opinion, church signs make us look like fools.

I came across one such fool of a church on digg.com earlier today.  Pastor Roger Byrd of the Jonesville Church of God in Jonesville, SC put up this wonderful little ditty earlier last week:

Foolishness!

What opinion do people now have of a church that calls its self a “Church of God”?

Somewhere, sometime, someone had the bright idea that a lettered sign could be useful to a church…and at that same moment, 10,000 people had the idiotic idea that the sign should make a statement of who we are as a church.

Pastors, if you’re reading this and you, like me, have a church sign — be careful.  And in my opinion, if you don’t have anything useful to say to your community (ie, an announcement that is beneficial to them, service times, etc.)…

just leave it blank!

P.S. - read the thoughts of the digg users here. Warning though…may contain foul language.