I have seen a dozen blogs posting about Rick Warren’s new blog. However, few are actually saying anything about it.
Bonuses:
- A well known mega-church minister is blogging. Perhaps more ministers will go online.
- People interested in the missions work of Saddleback can get quickly updated.
- People interested in Rick Warren can get quickly updated.
Negatives:
- So far he has been very stiff in his writing. It may take a while for him to get accustomed to it, but hopefully it won’t continue to read like a press release.
- I’m not a fan of Rick Warren.
You don’t need to read the rest of this post.
I’ll admit it. I’m not a fan of Rick Warren. I have been reading his books, and many derivative works, for nearly 10 years and I stillfeel bothered by his writing style.
This wasn’t helped by doing the 40 Days of Purpose (or the community one). They were very tiring (read: mind numbing) for me and very sloppy. I edited much of the material due to doctrinal disagreements, but my main problem was that his sermons were poorly written.
I am an avid fact checker. Perhaps even abit anal about making sure I am precise in my illustrations. As a preacher I would not use any illustrations without researching the validity of the illustrations. I would spend 20-30 minutes just to make sure I wasn’t lying from the pulpit. The 40 DoP sermons had incorrect illustrations and several wrongly attributed quotes. Now the internet is filled with sermons from preachers who blindly followed the sermons and lied to their congregations. The spelling errors and poor grammar may have been someone else’s fault, but he needed to pay an editor to fix up the materials he sold to so many churches.
Anyway, I hope he does some good in getting more ministers to understand blogging.
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