"How else to explain the billboard fiasco above our church offices in Mo'town?"
....."Makes me wonder what's in store with this one..."
These are two pictures recently seen on Liquid staff blogs. To refer to my previous blog, is the church changing that quickly? The quotes below each picture are taken directly from the staff blogs, and I think they are certainly ironic. Don't you think? a little too ironic? First, the showing of female flesh next to a church billboard is a "fiasco" joke, next it is actually promoting a series at Liquid. I ask again, is the church changing that quickly? Where will it end?
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Hey Marissa-- How GREAT to hear from you, sistah! Hope your sojourn in England is going well (it's crazy cold here as I expect it is there too). I appreciate your feedback about the trailer for our new series HEAT-- it's definitely raising some eyebrows (as we'd hoped), but not for the reasons you note below.
The "sexual imagery" you reference are actually all Barbie Dolls plucked directly from my 6-year old daughter's collection. One of the Big Ideas of this series is that our culture conditions us-- from early childhood on!-- to react (for good or bad) to idealized physical appearances. We're hoping to actually punch a hole in the "Sex Sells" mantra, exposing how much our world manipulates & distorts Godly Sexuality-- using it to sell everything from dolls to shampoo!
(This is actually the Big Idea of the opening message this Sunday 2/8!)
I hope you'll get a chance to watch Part 1 of "HEAT" this weekend LIVE via our Internet Campus-- http://internetcampus.liquidchurch.com/pages/page.asp?page_id=53839
I'd welcome your feedback once you've had the opportunity to experience the series first-hand... and lemme know if we were able to expose our culture's distortions and "re-frame" the conversation about sex.
Our big goal is to "steal back" the issue from the world-- and reveal the power & beauty God designed it to have as the ultimate expression of sacrifice & intimacy within the covenant of marriage. (that may be shooting for the moon-- but we're gonna try anyway! ;-)
Up with Marriage! Up with Sex! (just not the way the world does it ;-)
Lemme know what you think, sistah,
Blessings to you & Tim,
Tim
Tim Lucas
Lead Pastor
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