Was she being funny or was it really called "The Effin Egg Drop?"

Can churches say "effin?"


(How you answer this may completely change how we market Bill's teaching each Sunday Morning)

I don't think that was the official name of the egg drop, no. :-)
But she does say "effin" a lot in her post. I bristled at that, but then, I say "freakin'" quite a bit, so I decided inordinate objection wasn't merited. I was more offended by the "point" of the post, which appears to be "How dare these materialistic and pushy jerks not realize our marketing gimmicks and free stuff giveaways are about a relationship with Jesus."

All this talk about Easter and celebrating Easter (as well as that other post, The Grinchhas made me think about the possible topic of an Easter Sermon: Treating the truths of the Gospel as presented in the bible like an Easter Egg hunt. Include scriptures like the parable of the pearl of great price, the real time when Christ resurrected (around this time--after passover), the disciples on the road to Emmaus who discovered their 'easter egg' while traveling with a supposed stranger, etc, as well as the many 'easter eggs' we find in our lives living the gospel.

Perhaps, in stead of making mammon out of the teachings of Christ, we can make use mammon and turn that into teaching opportunities about Christ.

(of course that may get complicated when the pastor's net worth is linked to his church's attendance--turning the whole thing into just another gimmick or marketing ploy to get people out to church)

Quote of the day:

What we received was a strong slap of the Heavenly pimp hand.

Yeah, connecting God with pimp irked me too.

But, Phil, don't you realize irreverence is cool? :-)

That post turns me off, and I was going to comment on the pimp line too. I don't see how this event honored the Lord as they intended any more than the car wash she mentions. Actually, the car wash would honor the Lord more than the egg hunt/riot because it would serve people without the materialist pandering.

We had a fun neighborhood egg hunt at our church that Saturday, and I think some families outside our church were there. My 4yo was greedier than I wanted, but I didn't scold her. She tried to snatch a dropped egg from another girl and lost one of her own in the process, but I don't think she noticed so she missed that lesson.

The larger benefit to our event was telling the Easter story through Resurrection Eggs prior to the egg hunt (after the breakfast). I wonder if they discussed the gospel in any form at the mega egg hunt.

And another thing, if you want to give away an X Box, find a poor family who would like to buy one at a steep discount for Christmas or a birthday. Enabling a father to wow his children with a gift he couldn't otherwise afford can be character building, family building, and a good outreach for a church community.

The title of the post was a bit of a shock as well. I guess we can at least be glad that she abbreviated. :(

Huh? I'm still getting past the idea of a helicopter dropping Easter eggs. Is this sort of thing normal? If you did that where I grew up in London, someone would probably get trampled or worse. (I come from the area where several people got crushed and hospitalised when a new Ikea opened.)

Quaid - ha ha :-)

On this whole topic: I'm a bit torn. I take this person at her word that she was doing her part in this for Jesus. While not my cup o' tea (though our church too has an easter egg hunt - much smaller than this one and no helicopters) I don't think this is that out of line as a community outreach type of event.

In the comments thread a few well-meaning people have commented on her use of pimp and effin, and have already been slapped down (hard) by someone who identifies themselves as NotAHypocrite.

If I hadn't already gained a reputation as the profane Thinkling (and having in the past had one of my posts identified by a very prominent blogger as "the most vulgar thing he'd ever read") I'd probably bang on the language thing too. :-)

Plus there's my growing reputation for shocking teaching on Sunday . . . as pointed out by our own Quaid. Come to the GAP, you'll learn things you NEVER knew ;-)

Bottom line: whatever the wisdom of the helicopter/x-box easter egg hunt, it didn't take the place of their church service, and they couldn't necessarily control the fact that so many people came, with the resulting pandemonium, and I really think the writer of the post gave her service to Jesus in this case.

I don't have anything against church Easter egg hunts (or Easter egg hunts in general).

What I find ridiculous is the extraordinary amount of money, time, and hype put into this attractional gimmick, passing off the huge unanticipated crowds of people as being a "God thing," and then complaining that the people are there for what you're pitching -- free stuff.

I didn't mention the language or other stuff, b/c it wasn't my largest concern. It was the way she spoke of irate parents (judgmentally? not sure; we'd have to ask NotAHypocrite to be sure :-) who were focusing on free stuff.
Hello? You're dropping toys and candy from a helicopter. It's a fun idea. But it's not about Jesus.