Sky Writing as an Effective Form of Evangelism

View Commentstony • 19th Apr 2008 • Blog Thoughts, Budget, Church

Since we have moved to Florida, pretty much every evening we take a walk around the neighborhood.  One of the things that has become a tradition is stopping by the 7-11 that is just down the street.  I’m a fan of Slurpees…Coca-Cola Slurpees.  It is almost as good as an ice cold Mexican Coca-Cola from a bottle in Tijuana.  Well, the other night we embarked on our nightly walk and while I was waiting outside for my wife, I noticed that there was a plane doing skywriting.  The first few words were already blurred, but I could already tell where this was heading.  I pointed it out to my wife. Her immediate reaction was that someone was proposing to someone else.  Always the optimist, I tell you!  I knew that it was some sort of Jesus Loves You, turn to Him sort of message.  You see, these things happen all the time around beaches and in Florida in general.  Keep in mind that we live about 9 miles away from the Happiest Place on Earth, so the population density is quite large.  As far as reaching a large number of people with the message of the Gospel, I guess that this is a great place to spread the message.  I’m just not sure that sky writing is the way to do it.  I’m sure that somewhere in the masses of people who were strolling through the Magic Kingdom or EPCOT that the message reached someone.

So, I’m curious to poll the audience here.   Would you consider this to be an effective method of sharing the Gospel.  Here is my take:  The sky writing vanishes after about a minute.  After an admittedly quick search of Google, I found a site that gives some pricing.  10 characters costs 1995.00 USD to start.  For my money and the money of any organization that I am a part of, that is not an effective use of resources. I’m not trying to bash those that did this skywriting, I’m just wondering out loud.  I’m sure that when the Wright Brothers first started flying, some itinerant preacher thought it would be a good idea to announce the tent meeting in skywriting.  Back then, it probably was.

What are your thoughts??

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