This week's church sign

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I pass several Protestant churches on my commute each day and enjoy seeing the various sayings they put up on their signs. Most of the time, I agree completely with the sentiments.

This week’s sign doesn’t seem quite right to me, however. It says:
Love those who treat you right, and pray for those who don’t.
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Taken literally, it doesn’t say anything objectionable, I guess. But I think it implies the wrong message. It seems to imply that you don’t have to love those who don’t treat you right. (And, for that matter, that you needn’t pray for those who do treat you right.)

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I agree that the sign is ambiguous and confusing. It would give me pause, too. Maybe, because of space considerations, they were trying to give the message about the importance of praying for your enemies. And tried too hard for pithyness…(?)
 
Yes, I bet you’re right. They do generally strive to be pithy.
 
Hmm. That does seem to be a bit strange.

I love this one: “God wants full custody, not just weekend visits” 😃
 
Sounds like Hebrew poetry. I’m sure they didn’t mean to imply that we should not love those who treat us wrongly. They probably just got influenced by Biblical language and forgot how it would likely strike normal English speakers.
 
I saw this one: Try God. If you dont like him the devil will gladly take you back.
 
One of my favourites - it’s probably old now - was “Honk if you love Jesus. Text while driving if you want to meet him.” 🙂

When I’m driving around town, I always make a point of reading the various church signs. It would be fun if people who had the knowledge to do so (clearly I’m not one), could post pictures in this thread of interesting church signs.

But then, maybe the thread would have to move to “the clubhouse”?
 
I liked the billboards some religious group put up along the expressways around here. My favorite one was: “Keep taking My name in vain, I’ll make rush hour longer! --God”
 
I heard a church sign on the radio today: Sign is not working, come inside for message.
 
Langdell said:
I pass several Protestant churches on my commute each day and enjoy seeing the various sayings they put up on their signs. Most of the time, I agree completely with the sentiments.

This week’s sign doesn’t seem quite right to me, however. It says:

Taken literally, it doesn’t say anything objectionable, I guess. But I think it implies the wrong message. It seems to imply that you don’t have to love those who don’t treat you right. (And, for that matter, that you needn’t pray for those who do treat you right.)

:twocents:
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Mostly everyone loves those who treat them well as even sinners do the same Christ says

Not everybody shows love mercy and compassion to those who mistreat them and they dont pray for them or for God to forgive them or help them turn from their sin

A friend i know believes people who do bad things will indeed suffer for it ,even in hell

he said hes not going to pray for people who do bad to him

its like he doesnt know about Mercy or believe in showing mercy and forgiveness
 
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