http://takeyourvitaminz.blogspot.com/2006/05/christian-t-shirts.html

The problem with this is as more and more people have worn these and gotten less and less attention from them, the more and more attention grabbing they had to become. When many believers decided that starting the conversation was more important then how they stated the conversation, this became the outcome-offensive statements they cannot even recognize as offensive. Why?- because the attention is more important then the message. Problem-no one is going to come to believe when the message is lost.

T-Shirts (What We Should be Know for)
Derek Webb

they’ll know us by the t-shirts that we wear
they’ll know us by the way we point and stare
at anyone whose sin looks worse than ours
who cannot hide the scars of this curse that we all bare

they’ll know us by our picket lines and signs
they’ll know us by the pride we hide behind
like anyone on earth is living right
and isn’t that why Jesus died
not to make us think we’re right

chorus
when love, love, love
is what we should be known for
love, love, love
it’s the how and it’s the why
we live and breathe and we die

they’ll know us by reasons we divide
and how we can’t seem to unify
because we’ve gotta sing songs a certain style
or we’ll walk right down that aisle
and just leave ‘em all behind

they’ll know us by the billboards that we make
just turning God’s words to cheap clichés
says “what part of murder don’t you understand?”
but we hate our fellow man
and point a finger at his grave

chorus
they’ll know us by the t-shirts that we wear
they’ll know us by the way we point and stare
telling ‘em their sins are worse than ours
thinking we can hide our scars
beneath these t-shirts that we wear

I think Oswald Chambers and C.S. Lewis would despise this watered-down version of the gospel. “Spinning in their graves” is the phrase that comes to mind, actually.

And I certainly wouldn’t wear it on a missions trip to South Africa.

I agree with all here as well… it isn’t easy. Jesus said, “they hated me first,” and look what we did to Him. It is a narrow, difficult road to travel.

I do have a few slogan shirts, but can understand this one’s error. Thank you for bringing it up.

Now back to hibernating I go

Christians should stop making “trendy” shirts with sayings and stick to the basics. Most people who aren’t Christians think these shirts are ridiculous. I think they’re equally as embarrassing for those of us that are Christians.

What’s our message? Love. Everything else should follow. LOVE isn’t EASY….it’s an action we have to work out in ourselves and with others. And, if everything was that EASY, then we would have hunger or war.