Church sign theology?

My friend Amy wrote a very good article about a church sign, you can read her insight here: alsvoice. I don't have her creativity, but I was struck by a couple church signs I saw as I traveled recently.

First, there are two churches not far from my house which are within 200 yards of each other. One church, a Freewill Baptist Church, has a sign which reads, "What is the most courageous thing you have ever done?", the Missionary Baptist Church next door has a sign which reads, "To God be the glory". I am not sure if the Missionary Baptist Church posted their sign in response to the Freewill Baptist sign, and of course I don't really know where the Freewill Baptist Church was going with the question on their sing, but I certainly could see one sign being a God-centered response to a man-centered message.

The next questionable sign I was a billboard for a church near the SC/NC border. It said the church was, "a church for now". I wish I could remember the name of the church so I could look up more information and see what "a church for now" means.

I do think there is a tendency in churches to focus on what God can do for us now, Your Best Life Now, etc.

However, as Christians, our now is to be defined by what Christ has done for us on the cross and our hope/home is not here and now, but later when we will dwell with Christ!

Consider the following:

Heb.12:1 Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3 For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls. 4 You have not yet resisted to bloodshed, striving against sin. 

1 Pet. 2:11 Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul, 12 having your conduct honorable among the Gentiles, that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may, by your good works which they observe, glorify God in the day of visitation.

2 peter 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up. 11 Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, 12 looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat? 13 Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells. 14 Therefore, beloved, looking forward to these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, without spot and blameless; 

I wonder if these verses would line up with the theology of, "a church for now"? I am sure it does not line up with "Your Best Life Now", the book, but these passages do describe the way to have the best life now and it requires our now be defined by the work done by Christ in the past and the future we have when we see Him face to face! 

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