Church signs in some aspect can be a ministry…showing little bits of saying or uplifting thought which commuters see on their way to their destination.  Sometimes however it can be judgmental to those on the outside.

Other times it can be completely irrelevant such as the case with the one above.  Do a Google search for “Too Hot to Keep Changing Sign” and you will find a plethora of past offenders of what was a unique joke, but has since turned into a worn out cliche. What a grand opportunity to espouse an uplifting saying, and we get this.  The funny thing is that in this locality we have not had terribly hot weather.

 During the Nashville Predators’ Stanley Cup games (which they eventually lost), I came across this one.  So what’s wrong with a church supporting church teams?  It distracts from our real focus, that is the message that God sent His Son to die for us and if we believe on Him and do what He says we can have eternal life.  Anything else shown on a church sign is so irrelevant it would be embarrassing to place on there.  Again this is a sign of a church trying to stay relevant.  Are Pittsburgh Penguin fans welcomed there?  What message are you trying to say?  The Gospel is for all.  Endorsing a particular sports team, no matter how popular will only divide us and distract us from our real focus of Jesus.

As an addendum to this sign, I recently saw this particular church flash a caricature of Buddy Christ  with the message “Stay Weird Hermitage.”  Reading deeper into it, Buddy Christ was used in the R rated and blasphemous Kevin Smith movie “Dogma.”  This only goes to show that whoever is running the church sign is completely disconnected from spreading the Gospel and really only wants to stay cool with young people and hipsters.  It is likely that the church leadership has no idea what is going on with the sign nor understands what the Buddy Christ meme represents.