Monday, October 06, 2008

Website Cryptograms

Have you seen those website cryptogram things? You know, the things where you have to type in the letters that you see in the box in order to sign up for something. Websites use them so that those robots do not spam their sign ups.

The problem with those darn things is that they make them so convoluted you cannot even read them. I had one where I tried three times to type in the code in the box and never could get it so I gave up.

Sometimes the church is like a website cryptogram as we make it hard for people to "sign up." We speak a language that is often foreign to the person who has never been or stopped going to church, we forget what it was like to come the first time ourselves, we do not set up the structures necessary to properly welcome guests, we assume everyone knows what to do since we have always done it this way, we don't use good signage because after all, everybody knows where the bathroom is. The list can go on and on. How can we take the cryptology out of church so people just don't give up and go home?

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