25 April, 2003 5:47 PM
Back to Melbourne Tomorrow on the boat - tonight we are staying with my brothers inlaws in Shefield - they've been most generous with us on our trip!
On Good Friday we were walking through a quaint little village in the middle of nowhere and my phone beeped at me notifying me of the arrival of a text message. I checked the message and was quite astounded to see that I'd received my first ever 'Christian' Junk mail via text message!!! It was a message 'reminding' me of an upcoming Christian conference that is happening in Sydney later in the year. I'm not really sure how I feel about it - the marketing department of the church behind this conference is obviously in overdrive. In the past six months I've had four letters (complete with glossy brochures), three emails and one text message 'reminding' me that I haven't registered yet. Despite their best intentions - every time I hear from them I grow less and less likely to ever head up the highway! Its 'campaigns' like this one that distress me more and more about the way churches commercialise following Christ - the money that has been poured into promoting this conference must be a staggering amount!!
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Me too.......
Rachel C » 26 April, 2003 8:31 AM
That's somewhat over the top. I had something along those lines but no text messages from another smaller, but similar church in the same area. (Not Dayspring.) They didn't even reply to my complaint until I had emailed the pastor three times.
Shalom,
Jan
Jan » 26 April, 2003 9:06 AM
I'm pretty tired of this kind of thing too. We seem to have perfected it over in the great USA. I'm an alumni of Central Bible College (Assembly of God). Yesterday I got this "invitation" in the mail. It was an invitation to apply for the new CBC Alumni Platinum Plus Visa Card!! I'm still not sure what to think of this one. Where will this end??????
Matt » 27 April, 2003 7:26 AM
Yeah. I really worry about that church.
Christop » 26 April, 2003 2:04 AM