{"id":205,"date":"2005-07-12T09:31:22","date_gmt":"2005-07-12T15:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=205"},"modified":"2005-07-12T09:31:22","modified_gmt":"2005-07-12T15:31:22","slug":"the-united-church-of-christs-god-is-still-speaking-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/the-united-church-of-christs-god-is-still-speaking-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"The United Church of Christ&#8217;s God is Still Speaking Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ChurchMarketingSucks.com talks about marketing for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchmarketingsucks.com\/archives\/2005\/07\/the_united_chur.html\">United Church of Christ<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You may disagree with their theology, but you&#8217;ve got to love their marketing. The United Church of Christ made headlines late last year when their TV commercial featuring a bouncer at the gates of a church and a voice-over saying, &#8216;Jesus didn&#8217;t turn people away. Neither do we.&#8217; was rejected by NBC and CBS.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I had a long discussion with my aunt Sunday night and we talked all about Christians shooting their wounded and being afraid to accept the lost and go to them where they are.<br \/>\nThe United Methodists have a strong campaign about Open Doors and Open Hearts.<br \/>\nWhile it both campaigns may come across to many as too accepting or too liberal &#8211; I wonder if that&#8217;s where the real problem is.<br \/>\nGranted I&#8217;m not going to accept a homosexual pastor, but I wouldn&#8217;t accept a pot-smoking or adulterer in the pulpit either.<br \/>\nI think the real problem is that people caught up in whatever sin they might be struggling with feel shunned from the Gospel they need so badly.<br \/>\nWhat is your church doing to reach the lost?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ChurchMarketingSucks.com talks about marketing for the United Church of Christ. You may disagree with their theology, but you&#8217;ve got to love their marketing. The United Church of Christ made headlines late last year when their TV commercial featuring a bouncer at the gates of a church and a voice-over saying, &#8216;Jesus didn&#8217;t turn people away. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/the-united-church-of-christs-god-is-still-speaking-campaign\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The United Church of Christ&#8217;s God is Still Speaking Campaign<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-3j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}