A Second Response
A second blog about the response to the posters created by Pyromaniacs has been posted at C?N. Ken Silva uses the exact same personalities as the target of his blog. He says that the emergent church has been whining over these posters and cites this example from Mike Clawson
recently Phil Johnson of Pyromaniacs posted a series of Motivational style posters rather mean spiritedly mocking the emerging church and some of the words we often use… most of these posters [are] rather sad (in a “I can’t believe how badly he’s misrepresenting us” kind of way), and some even offensive.
How exactly is that whining? So, if the emerging church responding to unfair, ignorant and mean spirited posters is considered “whiningâ€, I wonder what you would call fundamentalists writing articles every day about the emerging church taking over their turf. Extreme bellyaching?
July 31st, 2007 at 9:05 pm
Nathan - I’m also hard-pressed to see how Mike Clawson’s post (especially when you read the entire thing…rather than Ken’s snippet) is whining.
Apparently in the world of Silva, emerging people need not express their opinion since they are wrong-end of discussion.
He tells Mike as much in the comments on Mike’s blog:
“Now Mike, it’s really nothing personal because I don’t think you’ve done this intentionally or maliciously - I just think you are very mistaken, and I pray that the Lord will begin to open your mind and your heart to Christ’s true way of [absolute sovereignty] justice, mercy, humility and love.”