Mar 25 2007
Your cheesy church sign could win some dough!
[From Yahoo News]
“Fight truth decay” is a favorite. “Come in for a free faith lift,” is another — two examples of the toe-curling puns plastered across so many notice boards outside British churches.
Now the hunt is on for the best pulpit pun, with a 500 pound ($985) prize for the number one religious slogan.
“It never fails to amaze us how many interesting posters there are,” said Margaret Slater of the church property specialists Congregational & General Insurance who are organizing the competition.
“Some of the puns really make you smile and we’ve seen some great examples of creative copywriting too,” she added.
Among the classics she cited were “Chxxch — Have you guessed what’s missing.UR!” and “God, you’re great!”
Read about it here.
[From me]
Oh Adam Feldman will have fun with this. 
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4 responses so far
I’m glad I’m not the only one who notices these church signs with the lame slogans on them. And to think that people sit around and think of slogans with six words or less, and publish them in magazines so people will know what to put on the signs.
“Seven days without prayer makes one weak.”
“Great message. See Inside.”
“You’re going to hell, and there’s not a damn thing you can do about it.” –Calvinist Church sign.
oh… my… stinkin’ goodness… this is way too good to be true!
Kevin - our state district superintendent spoke @ our church last week, & his talk was called “How to Fight Truth Decay”. Our programming team couldn’t stop laughing. In fact to make it “work” we made a video (www.youtube.com/clcdayton) it made it better, but the title was so cheesy! Anyway, it was an okay message…
I appreciate them, though. It’s an attempt at being funny. I’d like to think we as Christians can be funny but not in a cheesy way. We are made fun of for being so anal-retentive and Ned Flanders-ish. Although not the best way, these slogans and signs are trying to be different and call attention to church in a unique way. Of course, it becomes goofy and embarassing, but it could be effective…what about “Get your Mass in here!” I don’t know…I like it.