Tag: Gospel

The Gospel according to William Shakespeare

I just finished Searching for God Knows What.
Where to begin? Wow. You’ll just need to buy the book and read it for yourself. Seriously – just click the link and buy it straight from Amazon. It’s easy. They’ll ship it right to your home or office.
But enough of that. You’re interested in the title to this post – otherwise you wouldn’t be reading this.
I feel like maybe I’m spoiling the book here, but in the final chapter of Searching for God Knows What, Donald Miller suggests that the poet and playwright William Shakespeare may have been more of a prophet that we’ve given him credit for.
Granted I would say prophet is probably a strong word – but I can agree with modern day preacher (for his day).
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Pastoral Director of Design and Marketing

Is it just me, or would a Pastoral Director of Design and Marketing be my dream job. Oh how I would love to work full time doing marketing for the church.

What would that entail? Would marketing the church be simply telling the Gospel 24/7? While I think that’s a big part of it, I think it has more to do with marketing what makes the church a church. Also, it has to do a better job at telling the greatest message ever to people who aren’t going to step inside a church normally.

I think we need to find relevant ways to tell the Gospel to the world. We must be certain we don’t change the message or the Gospel, but sometimes it can be packaged differently.

Take for instance, one of my other passions, the CWF. How is it that a bunch of guys who love wrestling have found a way to package the Gospel with it?

It’s amazing to see how people respond to it — and more importantly to God.

We must find ways to reach every corner of the world with our message and I would love to be on the front lines.

UPDATE: Interesting how things change over the years. I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t want this job anymore — at least not at a church. I’d much rather see churches spending money on caring for the needy around them — rather than spending money on one more staff member.

What about you?

Another one for the stupid criminals file

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Photo by RkRao

CNN reported this weekend that two men who found buried treasure in New England were arrested Thursday.

Apparently they couldnt keep their story straight and the police were suspicious. The police chiefs comments were great. “Had they kept quiet … they probably could have sold the money and no one would have ever known,” Police Chief Joseph E. Solomon said.

But think about it, if you had found “buried treasure” wouldn’t you want to tell the whole world? Sudden fame and riches all in one.

Yet, as Christians we still have the greatest message of all and we’re afraid to tell our neighbors.

Lord help us to be fishers of men.