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Laugh to keep from crying.

Hello, all. We are back from the wedding, which was wonderful and perfect and very, very tiring, as weddings tend to be, no matter whose they are. We got back to our house at about 12:30 on Sunday evening, and have been trying to get caught up on sleep since. We must be the oldest 26-year-old couple on the face of the earth, because we were completely wiped out after three days of wedding festivities.

But before I forget, I have to share two more Jesus signs for you to add to your collection, one that I saw myself and one that my Dad told me about.
Monday morning when I was driving to work in a haze of sleep deprivation, inhaling coffee from a travel mug and praying that the day would go quickly and allow me to go home and go to sleep at a resonable hour like 6:30, I found myself following a minivan much too closely in traffic. As in, had they slammed on their brakes, I would have been wearing my coffee instead of drinking it. And from that vantage point, I was able to read the following bumper sticker. The punctuation is rendered here exactly as it appeared on the Caravan:

"Do you follow JESUS this close?"

I have to admit, I laughed, and I quit tailgatng them.

Then today, my dad called me from his truck, as he does occasionally, to pass on the following jewel that apparently is displayed on the sign of one of the churches of the Baptist persuasion near our family home in Sumrall. This one requires no further explanation, feel free to groan, or laugh to keep from crying if you want.

"Be an organ donor. Give your heart to Jesus."

I think I'm going to offer a reward to the first person who can prove my hypothesis that there is some kind of massive list of these cheesy slogans that is circulated by well-meaning, but theologically impaired churches all over the country. People can't just be coming up with these things on their own.

Pictures soon. Sleep now.

Comments (3)

I doubt this is a commonly used resource for actual signs, but it is a good collection of them : http://www.crummychurchsigns.com/ (there's a blog of them listed, too)

I'll bet there are some materials out there that they draw on, but I'd say a lot of it is copying others and certain members of the church attempting to be clever. Perhaps some of these churches have church sign suggestion boxes!

Kate :):

i saw one on a minivan the other day too. it said:

"jesus isn't for everyone. just kidding." i thought it would have been better if it say SYKE! (or however you spell that) instead of "just kidding." :)

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