Signs That Summer Is Upon Us

| By Daniel Darnell | Found in Communication | 5 Comments

Summer has finally arrived in full effect here in Texas and some churches are capitalizing on the heat. This weekend I was sitting at a light at a busy intersection, AC on full blast, when a church sign caught my attention.

“Warning: Exposure to the Son may prevent burning.”

I at first laughed at the play on words, but in the same breath began to wonder if this is an effective method to welcome people into the church. I don’t know that church’s intentions nor the effectiveness of their sign, but I can’t help but think messages like these would deter people from coming to the church.

There are actually multiple books and websites that give you hundreds on church sign quotes to put up, ranging from cheesy to funny to offensive. Here’s a collection of some funny ones, whether they intended to be or not.

There’s even a church sign generator website that lets you create you own fake church sign and can be fun to play around with. 

So do you think that church signs like these are effective in inviting people to church? Do they accurately portray the Gospel that Christ preached? Does your church use witty church signs? Have you seen any good/bad signs recently capitalizing on the summer heat?

 

  • http://www.iamanoffering.com Ryan

    To me – church signs just usually invite danger. Either the sign is cheesy so no one will come or the sign is offensive so no one will come, or the sign is pretty good – but no one comes anyway (only once in my almost 5-year period at a church with a sign did I hear of anyone coming because of the sign)

    I think they’re good for putting service information on (theme, time, etc) but nothing else.

  • http://www.bartondamer.com barton damer

    Don’t forget the picture of the “senior” Pastor should go on there too. ;-)

  • http://www.skillfulproductions.com Kyle

    I think the signs can be a great presentation of a churches’ personality. It’s likely to be the only regularly occuring connenction a non-attender has with the church. That said, less is probably more, unless you’re like some of the great churches I’ve seen with a witty comment 52 weeks a year. It’s the only thing I ever new about them. But if mean-spirited or condemning.. I can’t imagine it does much good. My all time favorite was on a back road in rural kentucky: “Church like it Used to Be.” Unfortunately my camera was out of batteries!
    There are some um, unique signs in Knoxville Tn (home of UT): “Jesus, the Greatest Volunteer”. and similar.. do they do this in every SEC town?

  • Mike

    We stopped putting witty sayings because it was becoming tedious. All we have on our sign now is the service times. I have seen one sign that said “God Could Not Love You Any Less”. While I think I know what they were trying to say (well atleast I hope I do) that obviously could be taken another way. Kyle not every SEC town does that I live in Fayetteville, AR.

  • http://secretlatte.wordpress.com/ Secret Latte

    I think I know what one church meant when they put on their sign “Just because you don’t smoke doesn’t mean you won’t smoke in hell,” but I fail to see how that would attract people.