‘He Gets Us’ Super Bowl ad.

I didn't watch the Super Bowl or see the ads, but the He Gets Us" ad can be viewed in the link below. The ad is getting some bad reviews, mainly from the libs - some are calling it "creepy." Some are griping that the "He Gets Us" funders are some sort of sinister conservatives. "While most donors of the campaign and the organization behind it known as the Servant Foundation, or The Signatry, are anonymous, known conservative, anti-contraceptive billionaire David Green, the founder and CEO of Hobby Lobby, has openly stated that his family is one of 50 families funding the campaign."

I am posting this article for informational purposes only and I do not necessarily agree with the views in it, such as: "Conservative evangelicals will do anything — including spending $1BILLION on a foolish 'he gets us' marketing campaign — to get people interested in church … other than actually following Jesus by supporting social, racial, economic, LGBTQ, and reproductive justice of course!"

www.yahoo.com

‘He Gets Us’ Super Bowl Ads for Jesus Flagged by Fans Criticizing Company Funding Them

A controversial company paid $20 million to air two commercials promoting Jesus.
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Super Bowl and all its hoopla is just more for me to ignore.

Just a few years ago, several people in our church would make plans to get together for the Super Bowl. We had a fellowship lunch today and only a couple people even hinted at watching it. Clearly, the Super Bowl has passed its glory days.

As for the He Gets Us ads, if libs are upset, that makes it harder for me to criticize.
 
Tarheel Baptist said:
Have you seen or heard about it. I just saw this today.
What do you think?

www.christianitytoday.com

‘He Gets Us’ Super Bowl Ads Part of Billion-Dollar Campaign - Christianity Today

Hobby Lobby’s David Green and other Christian funders back three-year effort to reintroduce people to Jesus.
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There was some brief conversation of this on the forum just the other day here. I think that there are some well-meaning people in that ad campaign, but the ecumenical squishy nature of it, lacking apparent clarity regarding their end-game (conversion, and what exactly Jesus' gospel entailed), is troublesome to me. Maybe their desire to use a market-driven model will eventually yield way to pressures from Biblical opinion(s)/voices to be clearer in their dealing with any potential Jesus seekers that "ye must be born again".
 
I'm sad that in the fact that it seems to cheapen Christ and his message. What else should we expect from a Catholic-based ideology?
 
AverageJoe said:
I'm sad that in the fact that it seems to cheapen Christ and his message. What else should we expect from a Catholic-based ideology?
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If given only two choices, I’ll take Catholicism over atheism.
 
AverageJoe said:
I'm sad that in the fact that it seems to cheapen Christ and his message. What else should we expect from a Catholic-based ideology?
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Just curious, what do you mean by "Catholic-based ideology"?
 
"He Gets Us" Super Bowl ads get some bad reviews: "Other Instagram commenters told the ad campaign that they are playing 'fast and loose with the scripture.' An immigration attorney chimed in on the Instagram post, 'As an immigration attorney, Jesus was not a refugee. Your organization keeps repeating this. It’s not legally true nor factually correct nor Biblical. He did not go through a legal process, no determination, there wasn’t a national crisis, and he successfully relocated to another country but did not stay. Stop twisting the Gospel!'

"One of the Super Bowl ads will be 'The Rebel' and opens with the line 'a rebel took to the streets' while black and white photos show visuals of people with sunglasses and neck tattoos, other people running, skateboarding up walls, jumping over property fences in hoodies, and slowly driving in cars through a city. It ends by saying, 'But they weren't a part of a gang spreading hate and terror. They were spreading love.'. . . One YouTube critic of the video wrote, 'Please quit trying to "reimagine" and modernizing Jesus to fit your image. Jesus wasn’t a loving gangsta.'"

www.washingtonexaminer.com

Super Bowl 2023: Two unconventional 'He Gets Us' Jesus ads set to air during game

While enjoying Super Bowl LVII, football fans will see two ads Sunday night from the multi-million dollar “He Gets Us” advertising campaign to promote Jesus Christ and Christianity to an audience of more than 100 million viewers at a time.
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See also Fox News:

www.foxnews.com

Super Bowl 'Jesus' ads spur mixed reaction on Twitter: 'Very sweet' to 'pretty cringey'

A Christian group's massive $20 million Super Bowl ads campaign faced backlash on social media after officially debuting Sunday night during the game.
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"Conservative podcast host Allie Beth Stuckey wrote, 'While I pray God uses the He Gets Us ads to bring people to Christ, the campaign presents a false, worldly Jesus instead of pointing people to the true gospel.'"
 
I just saw a billboard depicting two kids of differing race in an embrace, and the line, "Jesus doesn't want us acting like adults." While I get the gist of what was being said, I can't help but wonder if they think Jesus was disappointed with Paul when he said, "When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known."
 
abcaines said:
I just saw a billboard depicting two kids of differing race in an embrace, and the line, "Jesus doesn't want us acting like adults." While I get the gist of what was being said, I can't help but wonder if they think Jesus was disappointed with Paul when he said, "When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known."
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Playing Devil's Advocate (again, wow, first it was BASS and now it's progressives, what's with me? ;) ), but the allusion to children by Christ in saying that "unless you become like these you won't see the kingdom of heaven" serves as something that *MAY* be closer to what they were attempting to point to.
 
ALAYMAN said:
Playing Devil's Advocate (again, wow, first it was BASS and now it's progressives, what's with me? ;) ), but the allusion to children by Christ in saying that "unless you become like these you won't see the kingdom of heaven" serves as something that *MAY* be closer to what they were attempting to point to.
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Good point. My posted take was a shot from the hip and would be the flip side of the devils advocate coin you are playing.

I think the bigger lesson here, along with your Song of Solomon thread, (along with a thread I am about to post) is God and His ways cannot be fit into a box nor a set hermeneutic. We do err when we don't know the Scriptures, a big lesson that will come to light in my next thread.
 
abcaines said:
Good point. My posted take was a shot from the hip and would be the flip side of the devils advocate coin you are playing.

I think the bigger lesson here, along with your Song of Solomon thread, (along with a thread I am about to post) is God and His ways cannot be fit into a box nor a set hermeneutic. We do err when we don't know the Scriptures, a big lesson that will come to light in my next thread.
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Well, in all candor, I don't think their point was overly sophisticated in it's theological roots, and they prolly would never claim that it was (for either your or my point) intended to be. In this Attention Deficit Disorder digital age where attention spans are about as long as a nanosecond it's my guess that their justification would be that the original ad campaign commercials are merely attention getters on the level of TikTok videos, then once they get them to the NextLevel they'd try to introduce them to the REAL Jesus. That's where I think their strategy seems to fall short of Biblical evangelism, as they've admitted that they want to "inspire" not "convert".
 
I'm not sure what the He Gets Us people expect to accomplish for this $20,000,000 public relations investment. Knee-jerk liberals will automatically reject the message of the ads because they don't like David Green of Hobby Lobby because he is a conservative. Occasional-Cortex has denounced the ads because she says they promote "fascism." Most of us, as conservatives, are not impressed with the ads, either. By branding Jesus as a "refugee," are they trying to promote illegal immigration? I don't know - if I can't figure out what the message is, maybe they need to get some new ad-men. They are trying to be trendy and politically correct, but they are getting shot at by both sides. As ALAYMAN has pointed out, the ads do not promote Biblical evangelism. Not even close to it, as far as I can tell.
 
ALAYMAN said:
Well, in all candor, I don't think their point was overly sophisticated in it's theological roots, and they prolly would never claim that it was (for either your or my point) intended to be. In this Attention Deficit Disorder digital age where attention spans are about as long as a nanosecond it's my guess that their justification would be that the original ad campaign commercials are merely attention getters on the level of TikTok videos, then once they get them to the NextLevel they'd try to introduce them to the REAL Jesus. That's where I think their strategy seems to fall short of Biblical evangelism, as they've admitted that they want to "inspire" not "convert".
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Hence, my ambivalence over this whole campaign. On the one hand, I cringe at a designer Jesus that has no more power to save than Dear Abby, on the other hand, I relish a campaign that lays down a narrative that we can pick up and run with as you astutely pointed out.

Now, IMNSHO, a better campaign, (though not without its warts) is the Jesus Revolution film. Personally, I don't think it is any coincidence that these two campaigns, along with this Asbury Revival, are occurring simultaneously. God IS pouring His Spirit out on our society unlike we've seen in recent years. Like it or not, few will be left without an excuse.
 
ALAYMAN said:
Well, in all candor, I don't think their point was overly sophisticated in it's theological roots, and they prolly would never claim that it was (for either your or my point) intended to be. In this Attention Deficit Disorder digital age where attention spans are about as long as a nanosecond it's my guess that their justification would be that the original ad campaign commercials are merely attention getters on the level of TikTok videos, then once they get them to the NextLevel they'd try to introduce them to the REAL Jesus. That's where I think their strategy seems to fall short of Biblical evangelism, as they've admitted that they want to "inspire" not "convert".
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It’s the equivalent of God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life
 
Some of you guys really crack me up. We have a prime time Christian-themed Super Bowl commercial being shown worldwide, and all some Christians can do is begin to nitpick and look for theological inconsistencies or find fault with their denominational affiliations. Give me a break, unless Bob Jones U or Hyles Anderson can come up with the funding for their own ads, let’s just enjoy the fact that it’s not an advertisement for transgender acceptance or abortion acceptance, or some junk telling us how evil all white people are. 😒
 
Huk said:
Some of you guys really crack me up. We have a prime time Christian-themed Super Bowl commercial being shown worldwide, and all some Christians can do is begin to nitpick and look for theological inconsistencies or find fault with their denominational affiliations. Give me a break, unless Bob Jones U or Hyles Anderson can come up with the funding for their own ads, let’s just enjoy the fact that it’s not an advertisement for transgender acceptance or abortion acceptance, or some junk telling us how evil all white people are. 😒
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Is there any mention of personal sin in any of these commercials? Is there ever discussion with the prospective Jesus-seeker as to why poor pitiful picked-on humanitarian sympathetic homie Jesus came to earth? Are you ok with an incomplete gospel presentation? Would you be okay with a gospel message that merely condemned sinners to hell with no resurrection or substitution? Do you think that form of the gospel (per Scriptural revelation) is the kind that saves souls?
 
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