Sunday, September 02, 2007
Reply to Some Dude
Ok, so I found this angry guy on Zach Lind's blog, and I had to email him. So, here it is.
Well, I am having one of those nights. A night where I am restless with curiosity about what is going on in the theological world, evangelical world, just the world in general. Like always, I was skimming websites in search of words from new thinkers, curious bloggers and serious theologians. I came across your website and was offended. I must say, your website is well put together, the content however, poor. Poor, un-researched, narrow minded, ancient nonsense. I say this not to offend you, not to start a war of words and offenses. I say this to simply tell you that there is an, educated, growing group of believers who feel that hate speech like yours, and that of John Macarthur, is a silly waste of time. i am no Rob Bell fanatic, and I don't know Zach Lind from a hole in the ground. However, I am a reader, and Theology student, hence I spend a lot of time reading about the Christian world. Furthermore, after spending some ample time studying your work, along with reading many excerpts from Zach Lind's and Dan Kimbal's blogs (two men whom you believe to be emergent heretics, I have to say both Lind and Kimbal seem to have a MUCH greater understanding of the Kingdom of God than you. Not to mention they are both doing much more constructive things with their time. I have also heard many of Rob Bell's sermons, clearly you have not. You don't seem to have any idea what you are talking about when it comes to the emerging church. Lower your weapons and open your ears. Bell is doing beautiful things for the church and the kingdom. You seem to just sit around and write a lot of hateful blogs. Might I ask what good do you think you are doing? The Emergent movement is rolling like a freight train and it can not be stopped! The Emergent movement brings love and a real understanding of scripture. It says, "hay, let us get out there and put Jesus' teachings into actions, let us be the sermon on the mount and not just memorize it and call ourselves good Christians. Let us not waste our time by sitting around and writing 200 angry blogs about how much we hate Rob Bell".
That last one was a reference to you, in case you missed it. Give it up man, your uneducated rants are false, and they are doing...more harm than good.
Well, I am having one of those nights. A night where I am restless with curiosity about what is going on in the theological world, evangelical world, just the world in general. Like always, I was skimming websites in search of words from new thinkers, curious bloggers and serious theologians. I came across your website and was offended. I must say, your website is well put together, the content however, poor. Poor, un-researched, narrow minded, ancient nonsense. I say this not to offend you, not to start a war of words and offenses. I say this to simply tell you that there is an, educated, growing group of believers who feel that hate speech like yours, and that of John Macarthur, is a silly waste of time. i am no Rob Bell fanatic, and I don't know Zach Lind from a hole in the ground. However, I am a reader, and Theology student, hence I spend a lot of time reading about the Christian world. Furthermore, after spending some ample time studying your work, along with reading many excerpts from Zach Lind's and Dan Kimbal's blogs (two men whom you believe to be emergent heretics, I have to say both Lind and Kimbal seem to have a MUCH greater understanding of the Kingdom of God than you. Not to mention they are both doing much more constructive things with their time. I have also heard many of Rob Bell's sermons, clearly you have not. You don't seem to have any idea what you are talking about when it comes to the emerging church. Lower your weapons and open your ears. Bell is doing beautiful things for the church and the kingdom. You seem to just sit around and write a lot of hateful blogs. Might I ask what good do you think you are doing? The Emergent movement is rolling like a freight train and it can not be stopped! The Emergent movement brings love and a real understanding of scripture. It says, "hay, let us get out there and put Jesus' teachings into actions, let us be the sermon on the mount and not just memorize it and call ourselves good Christians. Let us not waste our time by sitting around and writing 200 angry blogs about how much we hate Rob Bell".
That last one was a reference to you, in case you missed it. Give it up man, your uneducated rants are false, and they are doing...more harm than good.
