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http://www.churchmarketingsucks.com/images/tancircle.gifJune 30, 2005
The Hats That Broke the Church (http://www.churchmarketingsucks.com/archives/2005/06/the_hats_that_b.html)
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There's an interesting article over at Christianity Today about a Montana church nearly torn apart by hats (http://www.ctlibrary.com/le/1998/spring/8l2054.html). It started when a couple high school students wore ball caps to the Sunday morning service because they got home late from a school sports game and didn't have time to shower. Their hair was messy.
Nothing happened right away, but grumbling started across the congregation. Someone confronted the boys, the pastor confronted the confronter, letters were sent, people seethed, the pastor asked the boys to stop wearing hats, and a family eventually left the church.
Over hats? Hats!
Now if you actually read the article there's a deep cultural reason why everyone was so up in arms about hats. And to some extent it makes sense, but it just illustrates the difficulty of being the church. Sometimes something as simple as a hat isn't so simple.
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Posted by Kevin D. Hendricks (http://www.churchmarketingsucks.com/bios/kevinhendricks.html) at June 30, 2005 8:13 AM
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http://www.churchmarketingsucks.com/images/tancircle.gifJune 30, 2005
The Hats That Broke the Church (http://www.churchmarketingsucks.com/archives/2005/06/the_hats_that_b.html)
(Filed under: Examples (http://www.churchmarketingsucks.com/archives/examples/))
There's an interesting article over at Christianity Today about a Montana church nearly torn apart by hats (http://www.ctlibrary.com/le/1998/spring/8l2054.html). It started when a couple high school students wore ball caps to the Sunday morning service because they got home late from a school sports game and didn't have time to shower. Their hair was messy.
Nothing happened right away, but grumbling started across the congregation. Someone confronted the boys, the pastor confronted the confronter, letters were sent, people seethed, the pastor asked the boys to stop wearing hats, and a family eventually left the church.
Over hats? Hats!
Now if you actually read the article there's a deep cultural reason why everyone was so up in arms about hats. And to some extent it makes sense, but it just illustrates the difficulty of being the church. Sometimes something as simple as a hat isn't so simple.
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Posted by Kevin D. Hendricks (http://www.churchmarketingsucks.com/bios/kevinhendricks.html) at June 30, 2005 8:13 AM
:rolleyes: Comments?