{"id":233,"date":"2011-01-04T18:43:21","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T18:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/stuffchristianculturelikes\/2011\/01\/206-you-are-now-entering-the-mission-field-signs.html"},"modified":"2011-01-04T18:43:21","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T18:43:21","slug":"206-you-are-now-entering-the-mission-field-signs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stuffchristianculturelikes\/2011\/01\/206-you-are-now-entering-the-mission-field-signs.html","title":{"rendered":"#206 &#8220;You are now entering the mission field&#8221; signs"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 20px;text-align: center\" alt=\"missionfield3.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/105\/import\/missionfield\/missionfield3.jpg\" width=\"305\" height=\"320\" \/><\/span>89% of evangelical church parking lots contain one of these signs. The signs are&nbsp;never positioned so that you see them while you&#8217;re driving <i>into <\/i>the lot. They&#8217;re placed so you can only see them as you&#8217;re driving away.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 20px;text-align: center\" alt=\"missionfield5.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/105\/import\/missionfield\/missionfield5.JPG\" width=\"278\" height=\"374\" \/><\/span>The implication is that you were not in the mission field while you were on church grounds, but&nbsp;in a cozy&nbsp;bubble away from pesky non-believers and&nbsp;moral miscreants.<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 20px;text-align: center\" alt=\"missionfield1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/105\/import\/missionfield\/missionfield1.jpg\" width=\"568\" height=\"338\" \/><\/span>Some churches post the sign above the church exit. Maybe they&#8217;re reminding you that even the parking lot is a battlefield.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 20px;text-align: center\" alt=\"missionfield2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/105\/import\/missionfield\/missionfield2.jpg\" width=\"439\" height=\"472\" \/><\/span>Other churches post the sign on your way out of the sanctuary, maybe as a heads-up that there could be some spiritual warfare in the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/stuffchristianculturelikes\/2010\/04\/149-calling-the-lobby-the-narthex.html\">narthex<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 20px;text-align: center\" alt=\"missionfield7.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/105\/import\/missionfield\/missionfield7.jpg\" width=\"512\" height=\"342\" \/><\/span>To my knowledge no one has ever posted one of these signs on the way into a church building, even though a lot of the time you are safer away from a church than inside of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>89% of evangelical church parking lots contain one of these signs. 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