Grassroots stuff
July 3, 2008
This is part of Creative Chaos.
I have never been able to fully grasp this word and what EXACTLY it means, but nonetheless “grassroots” best describes how we are advertising our fall series, “Jesus for President.” Yes, I know about the book and I read it 2 years ago when it was called, “The Myth of a Christian Nation,” and there is nothing new under the sun. The series tagline is “advocating for change since 33 A.D.” and it designed to use the hype of the fall presidential election to drive people to hear about a whole new set of issues that are above any empire on Earth.
Anyways, we are basically promoting this series like a Ron Paul-ish campaign. We have a microsite (anewplatform.com), campaign buttons, yard signs, a text update campaign, and a group on Facebook. But personal fav is community softball team sponsorship. Thats right, we happen to have the sickest recreational sports complex anywhere literally in our church’s backyard and we are buying jerseys with the series URL and logo on it for a couple teams competing in softball leagues next door. Like any grassroots campaign, we will just have to wait and see if people let it catch fire, at least thats how they tell me its supposed to work.
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Love it. This seems like a great way to push this grassroots.
And about the 2 year old version of Jesus for President (ala Boyd), Claiborne has some pretty fresh things to say that Boyd didn’t. They’re similar books, but very, very different (besides Claiborne’s being absolutely beautiful).
I’ve never read The Myth of a Christian Nation, but just read through the first couple of pages and liked it.
If you’ve read any of my blog you know I’m about as far to the right as you can possibly be. To me, it isn’t an issue of religion, although my religous beliefs definitly influence my voting.
At the heart of it, politics is about the roll of government and the limits that it should have on the lives of it’s citizens.
I don’t think that as Christians we should be guilting people into voting for a certain candidate. Politicians (maybe even more so than the rest of us) are by nature, flawed individuals. Just as certain political ideologies should be debated and voted on based on their merits.
I look forward to the series.
Keith, yes I could tell by reading your blog that you are a flaming rightist! hahaha
Thats why I am excited for this series as well, it is easy for us to get caught up in the issues, politics, and candidates of our earthly empire but as Christians, we are only citizens of a higher Kingdom. We have a totally different set of issues that cause us to think and live above what our earthly government tells us to. I have found that the teachings of Christ most often don’t fit either the Republican or Democrat agenda.
Anyways, the fall series is one I am looking forward to for sure, help start the buzz!
Check you out with the Mars Hill audience. My boy Nick has arrived.
If you do this series without reading Colossians:Remixed we’re not friends any more.
@jim -I keep hearing that. I think it will pick it up after all, I just get easily distracted by all the sweet artwork in those kinds of books, it makes it hard for me to focus on the content!
@ryan -I would like to thanks my producer, my label, all my fans, and above all, God.
i love how Twitter is being cross-pollinated over into blog responses.