Is Church Whack?

Can someone please translate this sign for us? We don't speak this language.

Comments

[John Meche]

Come to church and get an iPod? I'm there!

[RCdPastor]

I am sure that they will find out that it is not whack and that is, in fact, the opposite. For the elderly currator, whack means old, out of touch, boring, irrelevant, uncool, lame, etc.

[Denise]

Main Entry: wack
Pronunciation: \ˈwak\
Function: adjective
Etymology: probably alteration of wacky
Date: 1984
slang : not up to the mark : lousy , lame

Translation: "We're so pathetic, we're giving away ipods so you think we're cool and hip and not "wack". Of course, our sign is totally last century and pathetic, but please oh please think we're cool!!!"

I hate to burst their bubble, but twelve is not a teenager. By definition thirTEEN is.

Its like parents pleading and slobbering over their kids to be their best friends. How materialistic and shallow, and man-centered. I hope God shuts their doors for good. They bring disgrace to the name of Christ Jesus.

[noname]

It's a sign. Chill. (That means relax)

[Eddie]

If I had to hazard a guess, I would suspect this is one of those 'whacked in the spirit' church's. With the absence of truth, many bizarre doctrines are filling the void.

[Charles]

A few years ago this was a Baptist church.
They got into the seeker movement, the church split and they changed the name to South Pointe.

[Simon Larsen]

A church that obviously has an identity crisis. Why two signs side-by-side?

[Matt F]

I'm pretty sure people don't say "wack" anymore. Except youth Pastors.

[Bill]

My church is whack. Every time we get together, all three persons of the Holy Trinity show up to serve us. We get to have intimate communion with the Savior of the world. It doesn't get more whack than that. Word!

[Dale Gehris]

Interesting how people are encouraged to come into the church using idolatry to accomplish this. Thus the iPod Touch give-away. Maybe to keep them coming, the church will have to provide iTune downloads on a regular basis. I'd like to "whack" someone over the head with some sound doctrine. LOL ;-)

[O.H. Lee]

True that, Bill!

On tht note: why "Pointe" and not "Point"? Is spelling "Pointe" without the 'e' wack? Maybe that's what they're talking about.

[CCABI]

Not teaching the word, now that's whack!!! Its a Church of Christ if you all are wondering...

[Steve]

I think that sign answers its own question.

[wilson]

Most people driving by the sign would probably agree that the church is "wack", which is why they don't go.

[Denise]

CCAB how did you find out its a COC? Their new url is

http://www.theuncommonchurch.com/about-us.html The url on their sign doesn't work now. I wonder if this is the correct url. It says:

"South Pointe combines exciting music, passionate worship, engaging drama, as well as cutting edge technology, all woven together with the timeless truths of God's word. These elements are combined into a creative, relevant time of celebration, that we call "the uncommon church". "

Seems to me its actually VERY common and UNholy.

[Charles]

This church never has been a COC. It was IFB before it is what ever is now. My sister inlaw attends this church and I'm still not sure what it is.

[Matt B.]

Haha...I agree with Matt F. I don't think I've heard "wack" for a very very long time.

[carol]

So which is it? "Whack" or "wack"? Just wondering. If it's "wack" this church should brush up on it's slang.

[Glenn Hendrickson]

I wanna go! look at the bright colors!!!!

[Sergio]

Sweet! This is down the street from my house! I'm going to get myself an iPod!

But seriously. I am ashamed that my city of Abilene, Texas (which was in the Guinness Book of World Records for having the most churches per capita) would stoop to such low levels. It's hard to find good churches that preach good doctrine nowadays. The Word of the Lord is truly scarce in these end times!

[Sergio]

Denise,
CCABI knows (as do I) because we both live in the same town that this very church is in. Pray God can use us to reach people with His True Gospel! It is needed here in this town!

[Barb]

Uh, Denise? Whatever the etymology, "teenager" is used to refer to a subset of the population according to behavior and subculture as well as age. Have you ever talked to a parent of an eleven or twelve year old? Seems my friends with kids that age, especially girls, are always rolling their eyes and talking about "the teen thing" - "She's doing the teen thing again." I'm guessing this church was trying to reach out to junior high and high school students - which would make 12-18 just about right.

Did you think something magic happens on the thirteenth birthday to turn sweet innocents into wild-eyed adolescents? Or would you believe that the phenomenon of adolescence happens differently in Spanish-speaking countries, just because they continue to have distinct words for numbers up through 15, so that numbers in which the word for "ten" (which is all that "teen" means) appears only go 16-19? Should a 16-year-old be excluded from a gathering of this kind in France, simply because the French counting words as far as 16 do not contain the word for ten, as 17-19 do? Mercifully, there is no word in French or Spanish exactly equivalent to "teenager," certainly not based on the root word for "ten" as ours incidentally happens to be. They simply refer to their young people as "youth." It's nice to know they don't have to exclude a precocious 12 or a slow-maturing 20 just on the basis of linguistics.

If you have any basis for attacking this church's theology, fine. Attack away. But to go after them for something like this, or the way they spell their name (if a gratuitous "e" is an offense, God must want to smite a lot of tract-home communities and golf courses, and there must be a special place in hell for assisted-living facilities for the elderly) if just petty.

[Charles]

Sergio, can you tell me the name of the church before it became South Pointe?
Just want to know see much you know about Abilene and Big Country area churches.

Happy Frontiering.

[Denise]

Barb,

I didn't attack anyone nor did I make an issue of how Southpointe spells its name.

I talked about how they are materialistic and shallow, begging for kids to come to their "church". I also mentioned that 12 isn't a teenager.

It seems you are very upset for my pointing out a simple point about the teen issue and I don't know why.

At any rate, this church is just garbage and trying to suck in kids by buying them.

[Jim]

Church signs like this usually mean something like...

"Pornography addicted pastor needs to grow church to pay for a new fancy car and big screen tv. A simple ipod giveaway seemed like a good marketing techique to use since we don't have the power of the Holy Spirit. Unconverted, but relavent, youth group pastor is willing to trample the blood of Christ in support of the cause. Come inside for more information."

Note, I am not saying this exactly the case with Southpoint.

-Jim

[Barb]

Denise,
I apologize for lumping what I said about the spelling into my response to your comment. That was really more appropriately a reply to O.H. Lee.

As for the rest of it . . . well, I guess you missed my point, which is that the word "teenager" is just a synonym for "adolescent" based on the fact that in the English language, most of the numbers in that age range have the root "teen," meaning "ten" in them. There's nothing about the age of twelve, behaviorally or even numerically, that excludes it from teendom except that by linguistic accident, we happen to say "twelve" instead of the perhaps more accurate "twoteen." If other languages had a word for "teenager" based on the appearance of the particle meaning "ten," then, based solely on the language of the speaker, the age distribution of teenagers would range from 11-19 to 17-19 (based only on those languages I happen to have studied to any degree).

[jaemse R]

The church was and is doctrinally a Baptist Church - you people are lame. That is a word people all ages would use. Oh and Jim people like you are usually child molesters. Note, I am not saying this exactly the case with Jim.