Comments on: Brian McLaren, Emerging, and the Media http://www.wccc.net/blogs/gospelprism/2006/09/12/brian-mclaren-emerging-and-the-media/ Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:31:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: admin http://www.wccc.net/blogs/gospelprism/2006/09/12/brian-mclaren-emerging-and-the-media/#comment-584 admin Wed, 13 Sep 2006 16:41:37 +0000 http://www.samshua.com/blog/2006/09/12/brian-mclaren-emerging-and-the-media/#comment-584 Labeling is a dangerous thing. Why are the fundy GOP churchgoers ruling our world? Why are the left-wing loony Democrats so paranoid? If life could be so easy as merely putting people into such classifications. Labeling is a dangerous thing. Why are the fundy GOP churchgoers ruling our world? Why are the left-wing loony Democrats so paranoid? If life could be so easy as merely putting people into such classifications.

]]> By: TimK http://www.wccc.net/blogs/gospelprism/2006/09/12/brian-mclaren-emerging-and-the-media/#comment-578 TimK Tue, 12 Sep 2006 17:25:57 +0000 http://www.samshua.com/blog/2006/09/12/brian-mclaren-emerging-and-the-media/#comment-578 Sam, you know I can't resist commenting on this ... ... here goes: (1) Where is this "pro-war, anti-poor, anti-homosexual, anti-environment, pro-nuclear weapons authority figure draped in an American flag" Jesus? I'm not so sure that this figment of someone's imagination is not just a straw man set up so that it can be knocked down. I've engaged in, uh, dialog (yeah, that's the word) with a few people who bring up this construct. When I ask for concrete examples that aren't on the lunatic fringe, they balk. Once somebody spewed at me about the fundy GOP churchgoers of the TriValley. When I inquired which churches specifically, the response was stammering and the exclamation that I was confusing the issues. Indeed! (2) It is no surprise that this article does not touch on what the Bible identifies as the Gospel; this is a secular (left-of-center! oooph!!) source. What would be great would be if someone could point to where Pastor McLaren explains the Gospel. I'm sure such an explanation is out there; I just have been unable to find it. Enough for now ... Sam, you know I can’t resist commenting on this … … here goes:

(1) Where is this “pro-war, anti-poor, anti-homosexual, anti-environment, pro-nuclear weapons authority figure draped in an American flag” Jesus? I’m not so sure that this figment of someone’s imagination is not just a straw man set up so that it can be knocked down. I’ve engaged in, uh, dialog (yeah, that’s the word) with a few people who bring up this construct. When I ask for concrete examples that aren’t on the lunatic fringe, they balk. Once somebody spewed at me about the fundy GOP churchgoers of the TriValley. When I inquired which churches specifically, the response was stammering and the exclamation that I was confusing the issues. Indeed!

(2) It is no surprise that this article does not touch on what the Bible identifies as the Gospel; this is a secular (left-of-center! oooph!!) source. What would be great would be if someone could point to where Pastor McLaren explains the Gospel. I’m sure such an explanation is out there; I just have been unable to find it.

Enough for now …

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