centuri0n blog spot: aka Mr. Winkie Eye Calls Rick Warren a Polygamist Magister

                                            

“centuri0n” …blog …saying that Rick Warren has 3 wives and practices Shinto in his basement at an altar to his father’s father

Can I get away with this redaction? I mean, the popular media gets away with it all the time. There are 1.4 billion people online, and it was reported that in 2005 there were 50 million blogs growing at one per second. You can say just about anything about people with little accountability.

With the advent of drums messages traveled at the speed of sound with a one note band witdh, but hey, it was an improvement over yelling or running to the next village. Still, it mattered what rhyme was in the rhythm.

One of the advantages of the internet is the full spectrum access to information. No generation has known the likes. While the advantage is obvious, the dangers loom large as well. HD has not arrived when it comes to information dependability.

 Anyone who is familiar with the tug and toe of the popular media is familiar with the claims that opposing sides make about bias. Accusations are made. Things are taken out of context and reproduced as matter of fact. The danger of internet traffic is considerably more dynamic when we add blogs to the mix. It is an economy of scale. It may be bigger and cheaper, mass produced as it is, but not necessarily better or safer and is subject to more vulnerabilities of  market place competition and fraud than a conversation behind closed doors with someone you know. Just how one navigates these waters and arrives safely on shore begins to take on proportions similar to navigating mined waters in a hurricane.

 For those of us on this side of the great echange:  we need more than just a few keyboard strokes to be able to discern the truth. And here’s the problem, once we have found the truth we have no option but to tell everyone:

And we have another problem, we have to know its the truth. This post though is not so much about that, but what we do with the truth presented to us:

 If you’ve managed to get through Mr. Turk’s reasoning then listen to Driscoll and ask yourself: “What?” His advice is better than Warren’s! We only wish he would take his own:

Driscoll needs to, and he needs to go deeper. By remaining in the pulpit though, he has done what centuri0n lists as Warren instruction:

Shout louder than your critics to define yourself and do not allow them to define you.

And he has shown over the half year or so since his humility teaching  that he has done very little to implement his own instruction. But, I will leave it to you to decide. There is good criticism and bad, bad receivers of it and good. What Driscoll outlines here is good, what Warren instructs, is bad.

The point of this post: How then shall we put the right answers with the right questions that critics ask so that we might avoid self deception:

 To be a rock and not to role by everywind of doctrine and the cunning and craftiness of men by which the lie in wait to decieve. But that is not the point here, the point is how are we to understand criticism.Which is another way of saying, how are we to be discipled and are we ever above it?

Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and with meekness receive the implanted word which is able to save your souls.