submitted by frequent contributor Chuck S.
Not Jesus? Oh.
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"Not every hill is worth dying for."
submitted by new contributor Dan B.
In order to construct a smart-alecky response, I would have to have some idea what the %&^ they are talking about.
Oh well.
Keep 'em coming.
Not every Hill is worth dying for--especially Benny Hill & Hank Hill?
ReplyDeleteI think there's probably some war imagery here, like Bunker Hill. So... Pick your battles; Not everything is worth dying for; It's annoying, but it's not the end of the world. That sort of thing.
"fryshy": Adj. Nervous about using a skillet.
Perhaps it's a sermon title (loaded with old war stories, no doubt) ending with the idea that the the Hill of Golgotha, i.e. the Gospel, is worth dying for.
I give up. I have no earthly idea what this is about!
Allen said...Not every Hill is worth dying for--especially Benny Hill & Hank Hill?
ReplyDeleteOr Anita Hill? Or Lauryn Hill?
How many of these really inappropriate sounding signs are really just sermon titles? They actually prove Joel's very point by being confusing to the non-insider.
A case could be made that the point is to arouse curiosity with such a cryptic title. Book publishers work hard to create a cover that will make you pick it up. If you can get them saying "I wonder what that's about?", maybe you can get them to show up to find out.
At my church we still talk about the former pastor who came down with the flu Saturday night after publishing a sermon title of "A Good Day To Lose Your Luggage." She promised that when the same text came up three years later she would deliver that sermon. Long before then she had been moved to a new church and now we'll never understand why Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 describes a good day to lose your luggage. If we had a sign, and we put that on the sign, what would people have said?
As a lay speaker, I once delivered a message titled "Where Is Micah?" I opened by saying "In between Jonah and Nahum, but that's not my point." Again, if we had a sign, and we put that on the sign, how many non-church-attenders would have even known who or what Micah was?
The problem is the sign doesn't tell you it is the sermon title! So instead of saying "I wonder what that will be about?" people just say "HUH?". And how many of these churches have members saying "we understand what it means", which proves they don't understand what point an advertising sign is supposed to accomplish.
And...and now I've managed to rant in Joel's blog comments so long I wonder if I should just start my own, so I'll stop and leave my next comments for another time. But the number of churches that just don't get it is starting to really get to me.
We return you now to your regularly scheduled blog.
My wife's family uses that saying, generally in regard to something that isn't worth arguing with your kids over. When an adult insists on making a big deal about some minor infraction on the part of the child, someone will say, "Are you sure that's the hill you want to die on?" I always thought it was kind of a cool metaphor. On the other hand, it's a lousy choice for a church sign.
ReplyDeletePeace on Earth comes through Goodwill.
ReplyDeleteI prefer the Salvation Army myself!
Like diesel said, the expression is usually "I'm not willing to die ON that hill," not "FOR that hill."
ReplyDeleteIf they'd gotten the expression right, then I guess the sign could be referring to Calvary. Of course, even then, only the churchy people driving by would understand what it's talking about--maybe. Everyone else would be without a clue.
Crummy.