Jesus Hates Papyrus » superhero http://jesushatespapyrus.com helping the church become the most creative place on the planet. Sat, 31 Dec 2011 21:33:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Practicing what we preach : using pop culture http://jesushatespapyrus.com/series-highlight/practicing-what-we-preach-using-pop-culture/ http://jesushatespapyrus.com/series-highlight/practicing-what-we-preach-using-pop-culture/#comments Mon, 09 Jun 2008 18:11:38 +0000 Michael Buckingham http://jesushatespapyrus.com/?p=105 SamsonLooks like it’s superhero day.
If you’ve followed this blog or chatted with me at all, you know I’m not a fan of simply ripping off the latest TV show and calling that creative church. You also should know that I’m all about being inspired by pop culture and the creative inputs we run into all the time. Since I don’t believe it’s effective (or clever) to simply grab (24, iPod, Desperate Housewives) and turn it into a sermon brand I typically steer away from diving head first into pop culture as a sermon idea.

But when one of the churches we work with was coming up with a series on Samson and wanted to really show his amazing strength (1000 men with a jawbone) we ended up with a great brand inspired by “The Hulk”.

When we first went down this path, I was cautious. But through working with our designer to continually focus on what we were trying to communicate and understanding our inspiration…the results is a great example of taking inspiration and not stealing an idea.

When bringing pop culture into your marketing, please do it carefully and with originality. It is not the easiest path, but doing so will give you something great.

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Religion is everywhere.

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