someone can’t take a joke.
The latest article at CRN is entitled Rick Warren tells Jewish leader “There are More Than Enough Christian Souls…” Sounds absolutely scandalous, doesn’t it? I mean, this obviously shows that Warren doesn’t want any more people to come to Christ, and is rooting for modern Judaism, right?
Or, we could simply look at it in context. With creative editing, you can make a story look so juicy. Let’s look at the quotes unedited.
CRN wrote
Warren managed to speak for the entire evening without once mentioning Jesus — a testament to his savvy message-tailoring…
The full quote
The other secret to his success is his passion for God and Jesus. Warren managed to speak for the entire evening without once mentioning Jesus — a testament to his savvy message-tailoring. But make no mistake, the driving purpose of an evangelical church is to evangelize, and it is Warren’s devotion to spreading the words of the Christian Bible that drive his ministry.
CRN wrote in the title
There are More Than Enough Christian Souls
leaving out the ending…
There are more than enough Christian souls to deal with for starters
obviously a joke, responding to why he was not trying to convert all the Jews he was working with. And finally, CRN wrote
The success of Warren’s second book, “The Purpose-Driven Life†(Zondervan, 2002), demonstrates his ability to turn a particular gospel into a universal one
However, we already saw from the first quote that the author clearly saw Warren’s agenda of “spreading the words of the Christian Bible” out of “his passion for God and Jesus”
On top of all this… the article is dated June 23, 2006. If you have to go back two years to dig up some dirt, you may be a bit to zealous for your cause.
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February 5th, 2008 at 10:34 pm
This is such an obvious case of deliberately distorting what was actually in the article that I wonder how it can’t be called lying.
February 6th, 2008 at 9:53 am
They edited the post and added the “enough Christians souls to deal with”.
Good call guys.