Click the link to watch a report from a local television station in Sevierville, TN about a local church there whose “Red Hot Sex” mailer may have had the opposite of the effect intended on some residents. Why can’t we just trust the Word to do its job rather than our creative marketing?
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2007/10/06/tn.sexy.pamphlets.wate
So much for an undefiled, sanctified, marital bed. Lets just put it out there for the whole church to view. I wonder if the fallout of this class will produce some episodes of infidelity, when some of the struggling marriages find a presentation of “how good it can be”, and through the weakness of the flesh, might fall.
The light of the body is the eye!
Just as a drunk, whether recovering, or in active status, needs to stay away from the temptation of the bottle, the respondents to this advertisement may be inviting a host of misery.
It appearers that by the week, we are falling into the quagmire of the worlds thinking and ways. I wonder who in the “heavens” (small h) is rejoicing at the opportunity this series presents?
That was outrageous. And to think the “Pastor” says he would do it all over again is absurd. Why not just preach the Word and let God add, OR even detract, from your numbers, as HE WILLS??? Whatever happened to trusting the providence of our sovereign God?
I think much of “advertising” happens because we’re unconsciously (or perhaps very consciously) aware that our lives truly don’t model the power of the gospel and the kingdom. Saying great things about it is much easier.
“For the kingdom of God does not consist in talk but in power.”
I think we miss the mark on this.