Community, Understanding Context
Do You Have a Christian Symbol on Your Car?
I subscribe to Off-the-Map.org’s ezine. Today, they have an article by Steve Sjogren, former pastor of the Vineyard in Cincinnati. Now, he is lead pastor at Coastline Tampa Church. He’s got an interesting article here that should spark some agreement or disagreement.
“During your weekend services, do a spot check before you speak. Tally up how many vehicles sport some sort of Christian symbol. Usually churches that are seeing many come to Christ and have an internal book shop that sell these things have a high percentage of people who sport these on their vehicles. Enthusiasm to declare Christ is magnificent, but there is no worse way to do this today than by putting a symbol on your vehicle. . . ” To read more of this article, go to:
http://conversationattheedge.com/2007/09/09/its-time-to-remove-christians-symbols-on-cars/
What do you think? In our culture, is it a good idea to have a Christian symbol on your car? Does it help or hurt your witness for Christ? Does it draw others into conversation with you or separate you from others?
Jeff Glass
10 Sep 2007 Jeff Glass
Nope… don’t have one there… though do have a tailgate message inviting people to “follow me to… a church where relationships matter… and the church info including web addy is there. take the total tailgate on my pickup truck.
No symbol on my car BUT I do have tatooed on my hand the Christian Fish symbol. It is there as a conversation started and boy does it work… to begin with lot of people ask what it is and then since it is in red ink, they ask if I am a cutter… having some great conversations around it… that’s why I did it..