Bring Your Bible to School Day debate

• Is Bring Your Bible to School Day an effective way to share the gospel?

Asked about the eighth annual Bring Your Bible to School Day, the hosts call it a 'shallow victory': if students live badly all week, showing up with a Bible just lets classmates see through them, like wearing Reds gear doesn't make anyone a fan. They say calling attention to yourself is different from calling attention to Jesus, compare it to the 'forty hour famine' T-shirt and the performative Bible-on-the-phone routine, and object to 'celebrating religious freedoms' as justifying yourself — persecuted Christians elsewhere carry Bibles daily without ceremony. They prefer the old flagpole-prayer model (prayer, community, boldness), grant the event might connect believing students, and warn against using Christ as a weapon for political problems; one host calls the whole thing propaganda that makes Christians look easily fooled.