Comments on: Love Takes Balls – You Got ‘Em?

By: Melody Hanson

Melody Hanson — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:37:48 +0000

Troubling is what this is. I’m all for being catchy and even shocking with your marketing catch phrases. But this is just cliche.

Know your audience. Clearly this audience is men. (And not all men.) Tostesterone full, macho, military Hooah saying Look at me. I’m a warrior. I’m ready. I am power, strength, virility, athleticism, and competitiveness.

It is a cliche and a stereotype. It’s very pop culture, which would be fine if it weren’t alienating women. Females. Those people beside you in the church that don’t-have-balls.

By: onelouder

onelouder — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 04:36:12 +0000

since we’re sharing opinions… i’m not offended. i just think it’s bad marketing/design. is this the type of discussion that was intended? i put it in the “jesus is my friend” category. looks like a spoof to me. someone making fun of how christians tend to try too hard to appear relevant.

By: ray3san

ray3san — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:45:56 +0000

When you have been either the receiver or the giver of radical grace, you understand that love and courage are one.

One symbol. 1,000 sermons.

By: amykay

amykay — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 04:38:49 +0000

so interesting to me that people are really offended by….. an upside down heart. i mean really, that’s what it is. it has a teeny tiny resemblance to actual balls, and it gets the point across– which is way more important than the graphic of….. an upside down heart. it reminds me of when people freaked out about tony campolo saying, “i have three things I’d like to say today. first, while you were sleeping last night, 30,000 kids died of starvation or diseases related to malnutrition. second, most of you don’t give a shit. what’s worse is that you’re more upset with the fact that I said shit than the fact that 30,000 kids died last night.” why do we (and i do include myself, we all have our hangups) take so much time caring about the parts that aren’t so important?

By: Russ

Russ — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:55:22 +0000

I get what the marketing attempt is trying to push but I think it’s in poor taste and it’s also kind of lame theologically.

We love because God loves us. Not because of anything we can muster up. It’s not about having the “balls” to love. It’s letting God love through us.

Nothing I could ever do is real LOVE. God’s heart is love. HE is love. Not my actions, not my efforts.

Love takes submissions and meekness. It means being others-oriented. Not mustering up some sort of fortitude from within.

By: Kind of Anonymous...so i dont get hit with your stones

Kind of Anonymous...so i dont get hit with your stones — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:55:42 +0000

are we talking about metaphoric balls? or real balls?

mostly I think it takes balls to reproduce and be fruitful and multiply…
and it takes balls getting hit, kicked or nailed by a baseball to recieve that all to familiar pain in the stomach/side that makes one want to hit his knees in repentance.

I know adam was naked once upon a time, so im sure the balls were an accepted thing until he had to get a fig leaf, or a banana leaf depending on his “endowedness.”

If you go watch “america’s funniest home videos” you will inevitably see large amounts of poeple getting tanked in the BALLS…and everyone, children included laugh.

“daddy, why is everyone laughing cause that man got hit between the legs?”

“well daughter, men are made with testicles, 2 balls that are strategically placed between their legs for the purpose of reproduction, and when they get hit their it hurts them to the point of a near death experience, and so we laugh at them”

so why stop at balls

just saying

By: Irene

Irene — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 04:43:24 +0000

I am just wondering if I am confused about the target audience of this campaigne. If it is Christians then this is not “…what you need in order to pull this type of love off.” There is only one place to go to find “…what you need in order to pull this type of love off.”
So as the intended audience I don’t get it. Sorry.

By: carie

carie — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 02:56:16 +0000

I don’t mind it. That’s a pretty common slang word used by men. Not all men, obviously, but by plenty. And, if someone previously unreached sees this and it moves them, it’s done its job. It’s just simple marketing…and while some people might be turned off, it’s very possible that the stuff that reaches them isn’t up another person’s alley….but this is. The intended audience will likely get it, and that will make it a success.

By: Mollie

Mollie — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:21:45 +0000

had to LOL @ Brody’s comment!!!!

To me, it is vulgar. Totally makes me tune out— is that what it means to be the salt of the earth? I don’t think so.

But on the other hand—– maybe that would reach someone that isn’t from the same mold I am from— maybe this is the ONLY thing that would reach them. And if so, ….

By: Susan Lolley

Susan Lolley — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:54:48 +0000

I get it. I really do get it — and I can appreciate being edgy and out there. It does bother me, though — specifically because it is what it is — the whole man’s package straight out. It makes me feel bad. I work with kids in the performing arts — we truly try to get out there with some edgy stuff and make sure their voices are heard clearly as a meaningful voice in the universal church — but I have to say that this is a phrase I wouldn’t want to use or hear them use. I do get what you’re doing and saying — it just doesn’t “help” me or encourage me or inspire me. That’s all — hope you can respectfully hear that.