Comments on: The A-bike Evangelist http://www.cartoonchurch.com/blog/2007/09/24/the-a-bike-evangelist/ by Dave Walker Tue, 21 May 2013 13:25:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Russ http://www.cartoonchurch.com/blog/2007/09/24/the-a-bike-evangelist/comment-page-1/#comment-187182 Russ Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:14:00 +0000 http://www.cartoonchurch.com/blog/2007/09/24/the-a-bike-evangelist/#comment-187182 Jacob's Ladder - the health & safety perspective Would Jesus have used wallpaper pasting tables for the Last Supper? The B&Q Version Calming the storm - is it possible from an inflatable dinghy? How to explain the ABC of Salvation using a folding Bible ... You're right, Simon, you're so right. Jacob’s Ladder – the health & safety perspective
Would Jesus have used wallpaper pasting tables for the Last Supper? The B&Q Version
Calming the storm – is it possible from an inflatable dinghy?
How to explain the ABC of Salvation using a folding Bible …
You’re right, Simon, you’re so right.

]]> By: Simon http://www.cartoonchurch.com/blog/2007/09/24/the-a-bike-evangelist/comment-page-1/#comment-187172 Simon Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:42:06 +0000 http://www.cartoonchurch.com/blog/2007/09/24/the-a-bike-evangelist/#comment-187172 I'm now expecting a series on the useful nature or otherwise of folding items when preaching the gospel. Ladders, trestle tables, inflatable canoes - the possibilities are endless. I’m now expecting a series on the useful nature or otherwise of folding items when preaching the gospel. Ladders, trestle tables, inflatable canoes – the possibilities are endless.

]]> By: Karin http://www.cartoonchurch.com/blog/2007/09/24/the-a-bike-evangelist/comment-page-1/#comment-187127 Karin Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:22:05 +0000 http://www.cartoonchurch.com/blog/2007/09/24/the-a-bike-evangelist/#comment-187127 I think you must be a pickled onion, Joe. Surely evangelism these days is about using wierd and whacky gimmicks as a vehicle for telling people they must be saved, which in turn is a euphemism for signing up to a particular church's doctrine and turning up on Sunday as pew fodder willing to put something on the collection plate. In many circles evangelism seems to mean anything but spreading the good news of God's love by trying to live in a way that reflects that. I think you must be a pickled onion, Joe.

Surely evangelism these days is about using wierd and whacky gimmicks as a vehicle for telling people they must be saved, which in turn is a euphemism for signing up to a particular church’s doctrine and turning up on Sunday as pew fodder willing to put something on the collection plate.

In many circles evangelism seems to mean anything but spreading the good news of God’s love by trying to live in a way that reflects that.

]]> By: joe http://www.cartoonchurch.com/blog/2007/09/24/the-a-bike-evangelist/comment-page-1/#comment-187102 joe Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:56:02 +0000 http://www.cartoonchurch.com/blog/2007/09/24/the-a-bike-evangelist/#comment-187102 It looks more like a scooter than a proper bicycle. Whatever. If that is evangelism, I'm a pickled onion. It looks more like a scooter than a proper bicycle. Whatever.

If that is evangelism, I’m a pickled onion.

]]> By: Dave http://www.cartoonchurch.com/blog/2007/09/24/the-a-bike-evangelist/comment-page-1/#comment-187098 Dave Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:45:02 +0000 http://www.cartoonchurch.com/blog/2007/09/24/the-a-bike-evangelist/#comment-187098 Like David I admire the mans guts, but I'm not a fan of street preaching. Chris - I was thinking of just cycling around the place as 'lifestyle evangelism'. Joe - it is not an electric scooter - it is a proper bicycle. By the way, what was wrong with my tie?? Russ - Brilliant. Knowing that the a-bike has 2 chains marks you out as a secret folding bike enthusiast though... Like David I admire the mans guts, but I’m not a fan of street preaching.

Chris – I was thinking of just cycling around the place as ‘lifestyle evangelism’.

Joe – it is not an electric scooter – it is a proper bicycle. By the way, what was wrong with my tie??

Russ – Brilliant. Knowing that the a-bike has 2 chains marks you out as a secret folding bike enthusiast though…

]]> By: Russ http://www.cartoonchurch.com/blog/2007/09/24/the-a-bike-evangelist/comment-page-1/#comment-187096 Russ Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:39:36 +0000 http://www.cartoonchurch.com/blog/2007/09/24/the-a-bike-evangelist/#comment-187096 Wonder if he sings the classic Wesley hymn with the immortal line: "My chains fell off ..." ? Wonder if he sings the classic Wesley hymn with the immortal line: “My chains fell off …” ?

]]> By: joe http://www.cartoonchurch.com/blog/2007/09/24/the-a-bike-evangelist/comment-page-1/#comment-187072 joe Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:10:53 +0000 http://www.cartoonchurch.com/blog/2007/09/24/the-a-bike-evangelist/#comment-187072 I think maybe there is some misunderstanding here. It is perfectly natural. Here is the real story: 1. Some guy buys an electric kid's scooter. 2. Due to his strange dress sense, the scooter manufacturers see him as being an unusual but interesting marketing ploy and so secretly sign him up as their marketing manager with particular responsibility for the christian market. 3. Said strangely-dressed-gent then starts telling people about the said scooter, cleverly using the term 'gospel'. That is gospel as in its common secular useage rather than refering the Christian religion. 4. The sales manager can then honestly say he has been spreading the gospel, refering to the story about the new product. 5. Christian media and websites having not much to talk about pick up the use of the word 'gospel' 6. Christians associate the scooter with evangelism. 7. Sales of said scooter increase exponentially amongst the community of strangely dressed evangelists. I think maybe there is some misunderstanding here. It is perfectly natural. Here is the real story:

1. Some guy buys an electric kid’s scooter.
2. Due to his strange dress sense, the scooter manufacturers see him as being an unusual but interesting marketing ploy and so secretly sign him up as their marketing manager with particular responsibility for the christian market.
3. Said strangely-dressed-gent then starts telling people about the said scooter, cleverly using the term ‘gospel’. That is gospel as in its common secular useage rather than refering the Christian religion.
4. The sales manager can then honestly say he has been spreading the gospel, refering to the story about the new product.
5. Christian media and websites having not much to talk about pick up the use of the word ‘gospel’
6. Christians associate the scooter with evangelism.
7. Sales of said scooter increase exponentially amongst the community of strangely dressed evangelists.

]]> By: chris clark http://www.cartoonchurch.com/blog/2007/09/24/the-a-bike-evangelist/comment-page-1/#comment-187070 chris clark Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:07:54 +0000 http://www.cartoonchurch.com/blog/2007/09/24/the-a-bike-evangelist/#comment-187070 I assume that in order to keep ahead in the creative blogging game you will be doing something similar to augment the cartoons. We look forward to reports around the villages of Essex. However I hope you will stand up for the Calvinists and dress up as George Whitefield :-) I assume that in order to keep ahead in the creative blogging game you will be doing something similar to augment the cartoons. We look forward to reports around the villages of Essex.

However I hope you will stand up for the Calvinists and dress up as George Whitefield :-)

]]> By: David Keen http://www.cartoonchurch.com/blog/2007/09/24/the-a-bike-evangelist/comment-page-1/#comment-187063 David Keen Tue, 25 Sep 2007 08:49:25 +0000 http://www.cartoonchurch.com/blog/2007/09/24/the-a-bike-evangelist/#comment-187063 It could only happen in Britain. Fair play to the guy, St. Paul became all things to all people in order to save some, and by the law of averages there must be at least one person out there who is most liable to be saved by a bike-riding costume-wearing evangelist. Judging by his blog, more than one. On the outfit: having been to a fancy dress party at the weekend dressed as Adam Ant, 3 hours of pure embarassment, I 100% admire his guts! It could only happen in Britain.

Fair play to the guy, St. Paul became all things to all people in order to save some, and by the law of averages there must be at least one person out there who is most liable to be saved by a bike-riding costume-wearing evangelist. Judging by his blog, more than one. On the outfit: having been to a fancy dress party at the weekend dressed as Adam Ant, 3 hours of pure embarassment, I 100% admire his guts!

]]> By: Black Wolf http://www.cartoonchurch.com/blog/2007/09/24/the-a-bike-evangelist/comment-page-1/#comment-187012 Black Wolf Tue, 25 Sep 2007 04:01:35 +0000 http://www.cartoonchurch.com/blog/2007/09/24/the-a-bike-evangelist/#comment-187012 Nice hair. Classic hair. Nice hair. Classic hair.

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