Evensong??

Recently a church near me invested in one of these changeable block-lettering signs. With their building being located at an intersection, of a high-traffic road with quite a few bus routes, this is a great opportunity to put out a message to the general public. The people who don't normally hear from you.


But sadly this is the kind of thing it displays. Evensong!?!? How many passing motorists even know what that means? I'm not sure i know what they mean.

It's just one of these sad symptoms of people who live in "churchworld" (a place where "evensong" and "eucharist" are words that everybody knows) and have no idea of the real world, where their insider-language is utterly meaningless to 95% of people.

As a result, the only real message they are giving to the bypassing public is that the church is irrelevant to their life.