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After a lot of love, attention and tweaking, phase one of GretemanGroup.com is officially live.
Featuring our updated brand, a new portfolio and our very own blog, the site is refreshed, easy to navigate and provides more opportunity for interaction. While we’re still ironing out some minor issues and planning to add more features in the future, the site is live and it is good. At least I think so.
Have a great holiday weekend.
Ok, this is pathetically similar to my “preference post,” but let’s play a quick, clean game of “Would You Rather,” with the ridiculously clever twist of adding “why” to your answer. Be as honest as you feel like being. Or be funny. You choose.
Would You Rather…
It’s posts like these that really propel me towards the upper echelons of influential bloggers.
Let’s pretend that you worked for a company that was looking for a branding/marketing/advertising partner. Caveat: If you really are working for a company that is looking for a branding/marketing/advertising partner, please be yourself.
Imagine that you heard about an ad agency from one of your business friends or heard a representative from the agency speak at an association luncheon. You can imagine the chicken breast and steamed vegetables that were served at the luncheon if you want – it’s not necessary, but more power to you.
You type the agency name into the Google (a really good search engine) and you’re taken to the agency’s page. You’re initial impression is positive – the site is clean and the navigation seems to be logical. You click through their portfolio and then head to the About section to read more. Remember, we’re imagining here – in imagination-land it is not outside the realm of possibility that you actually read this kind of stuff.
Once you’ve landed on the About, what do you want to read there? What do you care about? What do you want to learn?
Thanks in advance for the thoughts.
In an effort to get to you know you, my readers, and get a blog post up, I would like to know your preferences for the items below.
Do you prefer…
Any items you need personal opinons on? Leave ‘em in the comments!
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Breathe has been called a number of things in its extremely short lifetime. Honestly, nobody’s called it anything negative to my face, but I have heard from people I trust that some not-so-positive descriptors have been thrown around to describe our ubiquitous group.
I would like to address two of them. Admittedly, this is more for me than those who said these things; they likely don’t read my blog.
A Group of Disgruntled Punks*
A lifetime-church-goer used this phrase to describe us when hearing an off-handed, relatively casual, but accurate comment about Breathe. He/she was bothered that a group of angry, bitter, hurt individuals were all congregating together to complain about church. The individual couldn’t understand why the group felt this way; he/she had attended church his/her whole life and loved it. His/her church community had helped him/her get through difficult struggles and some of his/her fondest memories and relationships were forged in church. Surely no one should have a problem with church, he/she thought.
I understand this individual’s train of thought. A lifetime-church-goer myself, I have been blessed with many relationships and support that I wouldn’t have had access to were it not for an organized community of believers. And, honestly, I haven’t really been burned by the church too much myself – I’ve only been mildly condemned and judged, though I have felt largely ignored.
But I’m not sure that our experience is the norm. There are an incredible number of individuals who have been hurt, either through a perceived or actual hurt (I’m not sure there’s really a difference there). They have no interest at all in returning to a group who treated them so poorly – and who can blame them really?
What if a group existed to provide all the love, support and community that the name-caller and I have experienced to those who are without it because of a fear of/hatred for/repulsion by/indifference to church? What if that community did more than sit around and moan about the problems in church (even though that does happen – we are indeed disgruntled), but also started moving in the direction of becoming like Jesus? What if that community transformed into a church in the traditional (like first century “traditional”) sense? What if that group helped move the church forward with its unique, albeit damaged perspective?
That’s the plan for this “disgruntled” band of ours. We’ll see if we get there. Just know that our desire is to be more – much more – than just pissed off punks.
*Ok, the way I heard it, it wasn’t “punks.” But that makes for a much more dramatic subhead. And I believe that it was the spirit of what was said.
Satan Worshippers
We’re not.
Any names you’ve heard or wanted to call us? Leave them in the comments below.
Photo Credit: Thomas Hawk
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Obviously, I don’t agree with Phelps’ assertions. But I do wonder what he would have us do. They continually call for repentance, but they never provide a clear call to action. How are we to repent? How are we to turn our nation back to God? What do they want us to do?
What is your church doing differently? Is it making the message of repentance and salvation tangible and practical? Or is it equally as abstract and unclear as Westboro?
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