World News > London, Aug 27 : Nigel McCulloch, the Bishop of Manchester is all set to launch a campaign called ‘Back to Church Sunday’ to lure religious drifters back to the church with bars of chocolate and their favourite hymns.
According to The Telegraph, McCulloch has warned that the Church of England was facing extinction, and his ‘chocolate and hymns’ strategy aims at multiplying attendance figures at harvest festival services next month by distributing thousands of credit card-style invitations and lucrative bags of free gifts, including chocolates.
The initiative, which is being sponsored by a Christian businessman, is basically aimed at over-50s, who have drifted away from religion.
The novel scheme has been inspired by numerous attractive PR launches and marketing campaigns that give away gift bags to promote their products. (Source)
Preach the Gospel at all times and if necessary use chocolate.
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More “free stuff” syndrome. People will often come to church for free stuff. It doesn’t have to be chocolate: the palm-leaves on Palm Sunday qualify. Problem is, it’s not God they’re coming for, it’s the free stuff. The priests at Catholic Ragemonkey reported last spring that people who hadn’t been to Mass on Palm Sunday drove up later to collect their palms.
I predict that most of the Anglicans who go to Sunday Service for the chocolate will go everytime there’s free stuff given out, and only then. The rest will come in at the end to collect their chocolate. A few will turn up at the rectory in the afternoon for that purpose.
LOL LOL
St Francis Assisi is laughing in Heaven LOL
Not he’s not. It’s sad that churches have to get people to come by doing special things.
St Franciss laugh because Jeff’s parody of his motto
This is pathetic.