Our culture says, “Image is everything.”
We know this has negatively influenced the church when we become more interested in shiny websites, rockin’ worship and Tweeting preachers, than the Gospel.
I love design. I love it when good art and solid media is produced by the church. I feel frustrated when I see some of the “churchy cheese” that gets produced and marketed.
Although image is great, it’s the content that really matters.
I recently read that if roughly 6% of born again Christians adopted an orphan, all the adoptable orphans in the world would be cared for.
If the church was doing this, our churches might not even NEED websites!
So, as creatives, let’s keep this in mind. Stay focused on the content. Not only in our daily design work, but in our daily lives.
Eric J says
My wife and i have looked into adopting children it would costs us 75% of our combined yearly salaries to adopt a child. It is too expensive to adopt unfortunately :(.
Eric Dye says
I understand. This is meant to be an example of how a small percentage of believers can impact the entire world in a very big way. I hope you and your wife can pursue adoption in the future or maybe even qualify for a grant (http://helpusadopt.org/).
I think it’s AWESOME that you even considered it. 🙂