http://afcmin.org/ateam/291/preaching-advertisements Helping plans come together, one post at a time Sun, 03 May 2015 14:00:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.9 http://afcmin.org/ateam/291/preaching-advertisements/comment-page-1#comment-1266 Fri, 09 Dec 2005 02:37:00 +0000 http://afcmin.org/ateam/?p=291#comment-1266 Creepy. If I were to know this deal were out there, I don't believe I could endorse Narnia from the pulpit even if I weren't benefitting from it.

]]> http://afcmin.org/ateam/291/preaching-advertisements/comment-page-1#comment-1265 Fri, 09 Dec 2005 02:16:00 +0000 http://afcmin.org/ateam/?p=291#comment-1265 I'm pretty pro-market, but this has bad news written all over it.

]]> http://afcmin.org/ateam/291/preaching-advertisements/comment-page-1#comment-1264 Thu, 08 Dec 2005 21:56:00 +0000 http://afcmin.org/ateam/?p=291#comment-1264 “Do we still recognize the church as the body of Christ? Or are we now simply seen as consumers?”
In more cynical moments I think we went toward the direction of consumption a long time ago.
I'm definitely concerned about Disney advertising in the pulpit, but in the end I suppose it is not that different than the Christian music or book industry doing the same thing. Still, basically bribing pastors seems to take it to another level.
Is the Narnia hype really surprising? What about many congregations' response to The Passion of the Christ just a couple of years ago? Or what of different churches using the pulpit as nothing more than another platform to endorse a Democrat or Republican agenda or candidate? I cannot help but think of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s quote, “The church is the conscience of the state.” (I think state here could be expanded and include society as well.)

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