The Joys and Hilarities of Small Town Church Signs

I could spend all week walk­ing around pho­tograph­ing and rat­ing these signs for effec­tive­ness.    Here’s the first one that caught my eye:

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I can’t help but argue with ol Pastor Larry.  My imme­di­ate reac­tion was “well… just the ones that mat­ter.”  But that was snotty of me.  So I decided to check and see if he’s right with the kind of ques­tions I sup­pose one would have for church:

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Your move, Pastor Larry.

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And then we have some good old fash­ioned Halloween word play.  Bonus points to this one for invok­ing Satan:

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Still, it has some prob­lems for me.  First of all, wor­ship doesn’t start until 10:30?  Seems kinda late to me, but it’s been 20 years since I went to a church that wasn’t Unitarian.  I bet they’re out of the pews before Chiefs kick­off time though!  But I don’t penal­ize them for this.

Mostly, I have to take away points for the poor for­mat­ting.  The word spac­ing is crazy, and that giant jesus is just throw­ing off every­thing else.  the kern­ing could be bet­ter too. Frankly, they’re lucky I could puz­zle out it out.  The first time I read it, I thought it said ‘Satan tricks you, Jesus.” 

Which I thought was a rather bold state­ment for First Christian Church.  Probably blas­phe­mous that Satan could ever pull one over on J-​​boy.  Hell, I’d con­sider show­ing up for that ser­mon, just in case the pas­tor has lost his mar­bles and deliv­ers the ser­mon wear­ing noth­ing but his underwear.

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