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Here’s a church marketing ploy that might actually work on me:
If Calvary Church breaks the 4,000 attendance barrier Sunday, April 12th and Sunday, April 19th Ben will sacrifice all the comforts of common daily life, make his way to the roof of Calvary Church, overlooking Highway 161, and reside in a ‘roomy’ 6×6x6 foot plexi-glass box for three days and nights. He will enter the box on April 26th at 7:00pm and exit the box April 29th at 7:00pm.
Here’s the pastor’s response:
THIS MIGHT BE CHEESY, BUT WHAT CAN I SAY? I AM PASSIONATE ABOUT THE CHURCH GETTING OUT AND BEING THE CHURCH, NOT JUST WITHIN OUR WALLS, BUT OUTSIDE OF THEM AS WELL. IT’S TIME FOR THE CHURCH TO GET OUT OF THE BOX AND LET OUR WORLD KNOW THAT WE SERVE A GREAT GOD AND HAVE FUN DOING IT.
Sure. Have fun in that box, pastor.
Even when I was a Christian, I would have thought this terribly gimmicky. It’s hard to take their religion seriously when they take it so lightly themselves.
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Interesting the way the pastor speaks in all caps. His spelling and grammar seem unusually good in that context.
Pastor, no miracles, so perform stunt?
He should enter the box on a Friday afternoon. When Sunday morning comes around and it hasn’t been three days yet, he might have an “aha!” moment.
Sounds more like he forgot lent this year and is hoping this will make up for it.
3 days? Doesn’t that qualify as a resurrection? Maybe there’s a hidden agenda here.
Interesting the way the pastor speaks in all caps.
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I have been told that when you channel the christ, it’s always in upper case.
I hope they hit 3999.
That’s just plain stupid.
In an effort to get the church out of the box, he’ll enclose himself in one.
Maybe he shouldn’t spend so much time being ‘inside the box’, and critically examine his beliefs instead.
“The Medium Lebowski
I have been told that when you channel the christ, it’s always in upper case.”
Ha ha ha. Is it because God has a Booming voice, or because he’s always shouting? It’s hard to hear him in the first place.
Aren’t there rules about pooping in public?
This church should hire that ShamWow guy. He would fit right in.
“Oddly I do as well. Oddly because it will be odd to you but frankly, God did not intend on the Gospel nor his body to be a forum for self-aggrandizing stunts and personal achievement.”
Yah that whole coming back from the dead thing, that wasn’t a stunt.
He just for got the keys to the house and had to go back and get them.
Am I the only one wondering how the pastor plans on relieving himself whilst locked in a GLASS BOX for 3 days?
I don’t find Ali G funny in the least bit but there’s a video on YT where he asks a group of holy rollers if Jesus is merely a trumped up David Blaine. Hilarity ensues.
David Blane he ain’t. Nor Chris Angel for that matter.
I’ the only one to see some similarities between this cage and a lightning rod? (if the borders and the wires are metallic)
Easter – Dick in a Box!
Anyone else find it ironic that while trying so hard to “evangelize outside of the box”, the preacher will remain inside a box? Oh, that silly primate!
When the gitwizard, David Blaine, did something similar in London, there was one fine response which stood out.
Someone used a remote control helicopter to make a cheeseburger hang in space, just outside the glass.
Oddly I do as well. Oddly because it will be odd to you but frankly, God did not intend on the Gospel nor his body to be a forum for self-aggrandizing stunts and personal achievement.
Perhaps his deity will see fit to suspend the good pastor’s bodily functions while he’s in his birdcage.
He’s channeling the holy spirit!!!
You’re assuming that God’s real, and gives a fig one way or the other.
“God did not intend on…”
Of course not, since He doesn’t exist.
Yeah, except for that whole “I’m-gonna-hang-off-this-cross-die-for-three-days-and-come-back-from-the-dead” bit.
Never heard of a Farraday Cage?
No it’s not, it’s just Alex.
Oh wait, same thing …
Probably like Saint Simon Stylites (?) whose friends sent up buckets for that and food. Let’s hope it wasn’t the same bucket!
That’s not the case of the cage in the photo, as there is not metal all around it
But good point :-)
Are you serious? LOL!