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There is a church in AZ that held a drawing to win 2 free tickets to a U2 show, as a marketing scheme to attract new parishoners.
A link to the article:
http://www.churchmarketingsucks.com/archives/2005/04/free_u2_ticket.html#trackbacks
The church's website: http://www.ccvonline.com/
A marketing report on the promotion:
http://www.ccvonline.com/u2/U2_Deconstructed.pdf
...Where the crap did they get the "statistic" that the "average U2 fan" is male, and between the ages of 28 and 40?
Someone posted something on that website (churchmarketingsucks.com) that pretty much sums up how I feel about all this:
"I'd love the U2 tickets as well, but somehow I just don't see Jesus handing out gladiator tickets at the sermon on the mount. I too received a couple of "interesting" postcards from a local church. The first was offering a chance to win a cruise for two, but you had to attend the 1:30 service to be entered. The same church just sent out a card featuring a Motocross exhibition after church. I don't have a problem with Motocross, but do we really need this sort of thing to attract people to church? Perhaps we've lost focus on what it takes to attract people to Christ—striving to live as Christ did and building relationships."
I have 2 other major problems with this:
1.) THEY DID NOT ASK U2'S PERMISSION.
2.) The misconception that SO many people have about U2 -- which is that they're a "Christian band." They're not a Christian band! They're a ROCK band, who happens to have 3 members who are Christian...and even that part doesn't mean much; just because someone is Christian doesn't mean they agree with these people selling the tickets. The only similarity between U2 and any other Christians is that they believe in Jesus. How they go about that belief is WAAYY different.
THIS is why U2 does not subscribe to organized religion, and why the whole idea of Christianity has been given a bad name. So-called Christians all over the country are running around, giving themselves a bad name, digging themselves a deeper and deeper hole.
What is everyone else's take on this?
A link to the article:
http://www.churchmarketingsucks.com/archives/2005/04/free_u2_ticket.html#trackbacks
The church's website: http://www.ccvonline.com/
A marketing report on the promotion:
http://www.ccvonline.com/u2/U2_Deconstructed.pdf
...Where the crap did they get the "statistic" that the "average U2 fan" is male, and between the ages of 28 and 40?
Someone posted something on that website (churchmarketingsucks.com) that pretty much sums up how I feel about all this:
"I'd love the U2 tickets as well, but somehow I just don't see Jesus handing out gladiator tickets at the sermon on the mount. I too received a couple of "interesting" postcards from a local church. The first was offering a chance to win a cruise for two, but you had to attend the 1:30 service to be entered. The same church just sent out a card featuring a Motocross exhibition after church. I don't have a problem with Motocross, but do we really need this sort of thing to attract people to church? Perhaps we've lost focus on what it takes to attract people to Christ—striving to live as Christ did and building relationships."
I have 2 other major problems with this:
1.) THEY DID NOT ASK U2'S PERMISSION.
2.) The misconception that SO many people have about U2 -- which is that they're a "Christian band." They're not a Christian band! They're a ROCK band, who happens to have 3 members who are Christian...and even that part doesn't mean much; just because someone is Christian doesn't mean they agree with these people selling the tickets. The only similarity between U2 and any other Christians is that they believe in Jesus. How they go about that belief is WAAYY different.
THIS is why U2 does not subscribe to organized religion, and why the whole idea of Christianity has been given a bad name. So-called Christians all over the country are running around, giving themselves a bad name, digging themselves a deeper and deeper hole.
What is everyone else's take on this?