\nmy reason for sharing this is more than the ad. <\/strong><\/p>\n first, this voicemail made me laugh. as one of the creative minds behind the ad, i rolled my eyes and quickly jumped into defense mode. i become cocky. but after listening again, i remembered his voice. this man’s called before. maybe once or twice a year. his caller id is always blocked and he calls a time of day when no one is here to answer. just to complain about The Church. just as outrageous, just as funny, each and every time.<\/p>\n after listening once more, his voice noticeably shaky, i began to see past this man’s anger just long enough to see the person behind the call. he’s in midst of a battle for his life. his soul. just like we have all been. <\/strong><\/p>\n my heart is now broken for him. with all our planning and focus on easter, we still missed this guy. again.<\/strong> and it was for him<\/em>. it saddens me. yeah, he got our mailing, but a lot a good that did. all he saw and he knows about our church is this mailing. he doesn’t know that we actually do all the things<\/a> that he thinks we should be. he doesn’t know that each thing we do is with people just like him in mind.<\/p>\n him.<\/strong><\/p>\n i don’t negate that fact that, sure, we had thousands of other visitors come through our door. lives were forever changed through the acceptance of a Savior (yea God!) but i guess i see this man on the voicemail as “the one sheep<\/em>” that got away. out wandering alone. still missing out on the gift that awaits him.<\/p>\n Matthew 18:10-14<\/strong> thoughts on any of this? the ad? the approach? his response? whatever it is, i’m interested in hearing your feedback. <\/strong><\/p>\n creative chaos <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" below is the link to a voicemail my department received in reference to the direct mail (also below) we sent out for easter 2008. our mailer was a take on Target’s “Expect more. Pay less.” with our ad saying, “Expect more this Easter” with an easter egg shaped target. a harmless parody. take a listen.… Continue reading sorry we missed your call…<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"easter-mailer-front.jpg\"](\"http:\/\/www.pinkhairedgirl.net\/wp-content\/easter-mailer-front.thumbnail.jpg\")
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\n“See that you do not look down on one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven. What do you think? If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered off? And if he finds it, I tell you the truth, he is happier about that one sheep than about the ninety-nine that did not wander off. In the same way your Father in heaven is not willing that any of these little ones should be lost.”<\/p>\n