Let me begin by offering a disclaimer to all banner-istic, and bulletin-ish people.  I really like banners and bulletins.  I just put two banners up for last Sunday's event, and I sent our church secretary two bulletin articles, earlier today.

So don't be upset.

Just to the right of me is a catalog that we received, here at church.  Right under the company name is this offer:

"HELP YOUR CHURCH GO DEEPER

WITH NEW BANNER AND BULLETIN DESIGNS."

Understand, I'm not saying that artistic flourish doesn't matter it does.  

Of this I am sure, though:  Leaving aside for a moment the fact that it is doubtful that one will find much in the way of high art in a church supply catalog, am sure that new banners and bulletin designs will not help the church go deeper.. 

You can put this on a banner or bulletin if you want to:

  "Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways! For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who became His counselor? Or who has first given to Him that it might be paid back to him again? For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever. Amen." 

(Romans 11:33-36, NASB95)  

Contemplating it can lead you to greater depths in your walk with God.  Seeking to live in the humility of this vision of God's magnificence certainly will, but not a new, or old, banner, or an updated bulletin design.

What the church definitely needs is not a batch of new banners or a run of new bulletins.  Quit playing in the shallows, and dive into the depths of God's word.

That is really STTA.