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This Church is… well…

Orginally published on Friday, December 07, 2007 at 8:12 AM
by Todd Rhoades

I kid you not... this is from a REAL church bulletin. I think it has to set the record for the number of times I've seen the word 'bitchin' in one paragraph in a church bulletin. Actually, I don't know that I've ever seen the word 'bitchin' in a church bulletin... until now. It's Friday, but this one's real...

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  • Posted by bishopdave

    from my days as a navy brat in San Diego, I seem to remember that “bitchin’” the verb differed immensely in meaning from “bitchin’” the adjective. This bulletin uses the adjective. I used “despise” once in a church newsletter, in reference to George Steinbrenner, and was told that was inappropriate. I think I’ll stay away from bitchin’.

  • Posted by Leonard

    Great Scott, Jeepers, Jeeze, heck, oh my gosh, golly, wee doggies what will these young people come up with next

  • Posted by Camey

    What got me was “this is a hill we die on baby”......

    Signed,
    Sitting on a hill at the moment

  • Posted by Eric Joppa

    SO I guess that this church is “totally” out dated? I haven’t heard the word “bitchin” in forever, maybe even my entire life. Wasn’t it cool in the 50’s?

  • Posted by Leonard

    Silly Eric, some words never lose their cool.  It was cool in the 60’s and 70’s and it is cool today.  Cool was bitchen in the 50’s and I noticed you used that word.  Nothing is outdated if you say it loud enough and clear enough to make people notice.

    However I used the word bitchen to describe a miracle of Jesus in the Againsteverythingbutus baptist church I grew up in and, well let’s just say they heard the word bitchen and started bitchen.

  • Posted by

    wow you are liberal , i never would have thought it, and against every thing but us is a great statement, wow, cool. ummmmm.

  • Posted by Camey

    It was cool in the 80’s when I was in junior high and high school.

  • Posted by Eric Joppa

    aww yes the 80’s....There is a cycle to the coolness of words, but it hasn’t returned yet....On another note, how were those shoulder pads? and what kind of hair spray did you use? how many cans a week? how many inches high was your hair?

    And most importantly, which hair band… Bon Jovi, Def Leopard, G&R;, Poison, Aerosmith (even though they began in the 70’s)?

    I love the 80’s

    grin

  • Posted by Camey

    Eric,

    We’re talking Texas 80’s here....So even BIGGER than anywhere else.  Definitely shoulders pads and my hair was so tall… people sitting behind me in church KNEW it was me.... Some would say, “Hey Camey? Can you part the water so we can see what’s up ahead?” lol

    Oh… but I really wasn’t supposed to listen to any of those hair bands. wink

    Those Righteous 80’s. lol

  • Hey this blog is bitchin (whoops, my bad that just slipped out).  This is a lame attempt at trying to be relavant.  I would file this in the being “of the world” category.

  • Posted by Rick Boyne

    I agree with Shane… it is a lame attempt to be relevant.  There is great shock appeal, even to those of us who are children of the 70’s, but its effect is opposite of the intended on someone even as cool as me.  wink

  • Posted by

    So, do they wear wrap around pants to church too?

  • Posted by

    This is an example where the attempt to be relevant to the culture, or the attempt to connect with the culture is taken too far.  As Believers we are called to be in the world, but we are not to be molded into the shape of the world.  Unfortunately, the Church is starting to allow the world to define who we must be to reach the world, rather than being molded into the image of Christ and changing our world.

    Being offensive in language is a struggle with which many Believers strive to overcome, so using the profanity of the the world to reach a lost world seems to be going in the wrong direction.  Who is changing whom?  Remember what Ann Landers said about profanity: “Profanity only proves how limited one’s vocabulary truely is.”

  • Looks like the Junior High kids are doing their bulletin.  Good grief, that’s just immature, unprofessional, and high on senseless shock value.  Nothing cool about that at all.

  • Posted by

    are these all leaders in the church. no wonder the church has such a bad name, as we say down south it just ain’t funny.

  • Posted by

    Who cares. How ‘bout we move on to a topic that focuses on living as Christ.

  • Posted by Darren Thomas

    Sometimes we confuse being relevant with being cool and unfortunatley we still think being cool is to act immature.  I’ve just seen first hand how a church leader can reap havoc on a church when they think shock value is more important than respecting others in their presentaion of the gospel.  I’m all for cutting edge - if it has a purpose.  This is just insane.

  • Posted by

    Unfortunately Darren these jokers believe it has a purpose despite God saying these things don’t justify reaching the culture.  Will they be so proud when they explain before God at the judgment seat “I made shock-value for you”?

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