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May 2nd, 2007

Leaving / arriving

leaving - arriving

I plan to add this to the section for subscribers tomorrow. I might tidy it up a bit, or I might not. I’ve made no decision on that point yet.

The moral of the cartoon is that the other side of the fence is not always greener. It depends largely upon the colour of creosote that your neighbours have used.

Feel free to put this cartoon on your blog by pasting in the code below.

<img src="http://www.weblogcartoons.com/cb/leaving-arriving.gif" alt="cartoon from www.weblogcartoons.com" />
<p>Cartoon by <a href="http://www.cartoonchurch.com/blog/">Dave Walker</a>. Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at <a href="http://www.weblogcartoons.com/">We Blog Cartoons</a>.</p>

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13 Responses to “Leaving / arriving”


  1. Jill says:

    Thanks Dave – this one’s going straight to the blog.

    Love your work

    May 3rd, 2007 at 12:45 am
  2. ruth says:

    Brilliant! And this has come just at the right time for me, as a regular from our church made her last appearance on Sunday, having found somewhere that better suits her – which is fine, but it left me feeling quite puzzled and sad (and I’m not the vicar, btw!! I don’t really know why it should have affected me, other than to make me wonder ‘what’s wrong with our church…?!’) Anyway, your cartoon has helped!

    May 3rd, 2007 at 8:03 am
  3. jody says:

    me too – on my blog, I mean.

    thanks dave, you are a very talented person.

    x Jody

    May 3rd, 2007 at 8:11 am
  4. David Keen says:

    Absolute cracker, ministers up and down the country are pasting this into their blogs over their weetabix.

    May 3rd, 2007 at 8:45 am
  5. Chris Clark says:

    Excellent Dave,

    Another sad reflection on the highly individualistic view of Christianity which we all seem to have nowadays.

    The vicar at this Church hasn’t got it quite right as the same number of people are leaving as joining. If he was on the ball he would make the guy down the road feel worse by being a net gainer of people. This is what much of modern church growth is all about :-(

    May 3rd, 2007 at 9:43 am
  6. John Davies says:

    I tried pasting this over my weetabix, however it got very soggy and the ink ran into the milk. However this cartoon is an absolute gem and saves me having to wade through a hundred deeply analytical Emerging Church web pages on the topic.

    May 3rd, 2007 at 9:28 pm
  7. Martha says:

    They come, they go.
    I stayed. And I worked on committees, served on the vestry and I wasn’t alone.
    Thanks, Dave!

    May 4th, 2007 at 2:55 am
  8. St says:

    The grass is greener on the other side either because of the climate or there is more fertilizer used. So, wetter with more crap. Alluring really.

    May 4th, 2007 at 11:03 am
  9. jody says:

    am beginning to feel a slight interloper on this thread – whilst I laffed at the poignancy of this cartoon and post it on my blog, I did (shh don’t tell anyone) actually leave a church and join a new one.

    less about the way things were done and more about surviving really…. :-)

    May 4th, 2007 at 1:40 pm
  10. Geronimo says:

    It can’t be the American church, you’d have a LOT less people arriving than leaving.

    May 4th, 2007 at 8:04 pm
  11. Mary says:

    So, is it the church that is at fault, or the people?

    Just wondering…

    May 4th, 2007 at 10:41 pm
  12. Tom says:

    Mary,
    Its the people who don’t realize they are the church who are really at fault.

    May 4th, 2007 at 11:03 pm
  13. Jill says:

    there’s a man who has been stranded on a desert island for 15 years. he is finally rescued by a passing ship. the ship’s captain asks ‘why have you built 3 huts on the island?’ the man replies ‘well that’s my house, that’s my church, and that’s the church i used to go to.’

    May 7th, 2007 at 2:10 pm