Ben Pettit

Blogging, I love it. I hope you do to. I’m back in Anderson this week and so I’ll be back to updating via Windows Live Writer. Sorry mac geeks, this app is just for us cool Windows folks. [I have Vista Ultimate and I love it!] It actually amazes me how many people in the church realm are not blogging, networking, and so forth.

I’d like to take a minute and introduce you to a blog that I found "through the grapevine". Church Marketing Sucks is a web site dedicated to from what I can tell un-sucking the church from sucking at marketing. [If you don't like the word suck, I apologize, but your vacuum cleaner, disposal, and even lawn mower... suck. Get over it.] It’s one of my must reads everyday and it is always insightful and it enlightens me on how we [the church] can better market Jesus Christ.

I see it like this, we have the best message, package, brand, and product that exist. Yet on the whole were terrible about getting the news out about eternal life, an incredible relationship with the author of love, creator of the universe… should I go on? Joshua Cody is the author of the posts and offers very insightful looks at marketing Jesus Christ. Lastly you won’t want to forget about Church Marketing Suck’ "Don’t Suck" page. It has wonderful resources on how you can improve your web sites, services, blogs, and over all marketing. Church Marketing Sucks’s has been known to ask for feedback so head over and participate in the comment discussion.

Lastly I’ll say this, if for one second you think that you don’t serve a creative God, you need to [A] check your pulse and [B] go take a trip to the Appalachian Mountains or Rocky Mountains this week and remember you do serve a VERY creative God.