Is your T-shirt Spirit filled

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Yep, you’ve read it right…tongues on a T-shirt. HolyGhostTees.com is selling an entire line of “cutting edge” T-shirts with the language of angels on them. And to push me completely over the edge the shirts come in, and I quote, “prophetic insipired colors”. It is because of things like this that I often run into a wall with the pastors I talk with when I mention church marketing. In case you are wondering, this is the exact opposite of what it means to be relevant or excellent.

\ˈre-lə-vənt\ : having significant and demonstrable bearing on the matter at hand
\ˈek-s(ə-)lənt\ : very good of its kind : eminently good : first-class

but certainly \rə-ˈdi-kyə-ləs\ : : arousing or deserving ridicule : absurd preposterous : see laughable

Jesus GymBut I’m not laughing, this makes us look like idiots that are completely out of touch. People will know you by your fruit, not the dorky T-shirt you’re wearing (yes, that goes for the Lord’s Gym too). If you need to wear a T-shirt for people to know who you serve…well, all I will say is you need to look at how you are serving. If you just simply must have a ‘christian’ t-shirt, check out C28, they at least have style.Jesus shoes But please, remember your originality comes from Christ in you not in the shirt you wear or the bumper sticker that you put on your car.

So be honest, do you own a ‘christian’ t-shirt? Am I missing something?

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  • http://ordinary-radical.blogspot.com Russ

    Hey, this is pretty absurd. Not to slam on the gifts or anything, but the whole concept as a tee is ridiculous.

    Sadly, I wore a Lord’s Gym tee proudly as a young teen (back in the early 90s). But have since repented of my errant ways and recommend that people wear a lifestyle centered around Christ and not goofy tees.

    Thanks for the comments over on my blog!

  • http://ordinary-radical.blogspot.com Russ

    Hey, this is pretty absurd. Not to slam on the gifts or anything, but the whole concept as a tee is ridiculous.

    Sadly, I wore a Lord’s Gym tee proudly as a young teen (back in the early 90s). But have since repented of my errant ways and recommend that people wear a lifestyle centered around Christ and not goofy tees.

    Thanks for the comments over on my blog!

  • Flotsam

    I seldom wear clothing with a logo or graphics, when I do it’s usually just from a place I enjoyed being so I “got the tee shirt” for the sake of a souvenir. I’m always curious when I see people – Christians included, maybe in particular – wearing clothing or driving a car plastered with bumper stickers bearing what they obviously consider to be an IMPORTANT MESSAGE. I wonder how many people you could actually influence into doing anything with a tee shirt. Would you even go to an unfamiliar restaurant just because you saw somebody with the place’s name on the front of their shirt? Probably not. Would you go to an unfamiliar doctor for important surgery just because somebody had a bumper sticker that said “Dr. So-and-so”? Definitely not, ridiculous to even consider. Would you honestly expect a person to be influenced to make a life-changing, eternally important decision because they saw somebody in a “Christian” tee shirt? Please.

    Imho, the only effect these admittedly well-intentioned tee shirts and stickers have is to trivialize their message, to reduce Christianity to the same level as Nascar or Bud Light.

    Not the message I want to send to the world.

  • Flotsam

    I seldom wear clothing with a logo or graphics, when I do it’s usually just from a place I enjoyed being so I “got the tee shirt” for the sake of a souvenir. I’m always curious when I see people – Christians included, maybe in particular – wearing clothing or driving a car plastered with bumper stickers bearing what they obviously consider to be an IMPORTANT MESSAGE. I wonder how many people you could actually influence into doing anything with a tee shirt. Would you even go to an unfamiliar restaurant just because you saw somebody with the place’s name on the front of their shirt? Probably not. Would you go to an unfamiliar doctor for important surgery just because somebody had a bumper sticker that said “Dr. So-and-so”? Definitely not, ridiculous to even consider. Would you honestly expect a person to be influenced to make a life-changing, eternally important decision because they saw somebody in a “Christian” tee shirt? Please.

    Imho, the only effect these admittedly well-intentioned tee shirts and stickers have is to trivialize their message, to reduce Christianity to the same level as Nascar or Bud Light.

    Not the message I want to send to the world.

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  • http://whatatrend.wordpress.com muz4k

    I must say – I don’t find anything wrong with wearing a t-shirt that leads people to investigation. However, if that t-shirt for shock value/style alone, I have issues. Of course, they make money though. So…

  • http://whatatrend.wordpress.com muz4k

    I must say – I don’t find anything wrong with wearing a t-shirt that leads people to investigation. However, if that t-shirt for shock value/style alone, I have issues. Of course, they make money though. So…

  • http://whatatrend.wordpress.com muz4k

    Good grief. I just noticed how old that post was. Hopefully, my replies are timeless.

  • http://whatatrend.wordpress.com muz4k

    Good grief. I just noticed how old that post was. Hopefully, my replies are timeless.

  • http://jesushatespapyrus.com Michael Buckingham

    Hey no worries at all…keep these conversations going. I’m all for causing people to investigate and even in creating some mystery. But these are just weird and hokey and…make light of something of the spirit.

  • http://jesushatespapyrus.com Michael Buckingham

    Hey no worries at all…keep these conversations going. I’m all for causing people to investigate and even in creating some mystery. But these are just weird and hokey and…make light of something of the spirit.

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