I might better be able to understand and accept the idea of trying to get people's attention if your goal is to share the Gospel.  I'm willing to tolerate a lot of far-fetched ideas if the Gospel is faithfully conveyed in the process.  But if your main goal is not to convey the Gospel, but rather to sell a book, then I don't have a lot of respect for your endeavor.

Particularly if that endeavor centers around you and your spouse spending a day in bed together on the roof of your church and streaming the event live over your web site.  I know, I know - it's just what you were thinking of doing.  Well, it's too late.  As of the end of this week, somebody else will beat you to the punch.  

Ed & Lisa Young will spend a day in bed on the top of their church to promote their new book, Sexperiment: 7 Days to Lasting Intimacy With Your Spouse.  Based on their website, it doesn't appear that they're going to be modeling any actual sexual intimacy (thankfully), but rather will spend their time giving interviews and otherwise basking in whatever attention this gimmick can generate.  

So here are pastor spouses using a gimmick to promote a book that they want you and I to buy.  And in case you're worried that this is a rather personal and narrow topic, they envision the power of this book and it's gimmick (agreeing with your spouse to have sex for seven consecutive days) extending beyond the marital relationship to actually invigorate and grow your church.  Now that's a curious outreach premise.

Tragically, this just comes across once again as Christians wanting to build personal prestige and make money via the church.  Sure, I assume that they hope people's marriages will be improved this way.  But trying to sell their book as though it opens the Biblical secrets about marital sexual relationships while benefiting personally (I assume - there's nothing on the web site that seems to indicate otherwise) is tacky.  Almost as tacky as trying to lure people to watch you for a day as you sit in a bed on the top of a church building.  The whacky and disturbing symbolism of a bed occupying an area typically associated with a cross or some other sign of the Christian faith is jaw-dropping in and of itself.  

Oh, if only we could go back to the innocent days of Oral Roberts warning us that God would take him home if Oral didn't raise a few million bucks.  Hard to believe that Oral's shenanigans might be made to seem rather tame and sedate.