I knew this would be bad, but I had no idea how how bad. I consider the impulse to blog my reactions number by number to be a temptation from the evil one.
I knew this would be bad, but I had no idea how how bad. I consider the impulse to blog my reactions number by number to be a temptation from the evil one.
So I’m guessing Dr. Phil must have just edged you out for that #50 spot?
Holy crap! Dr. Phil made a list of “Christians?!” And strange to see Bush on this list. My all-time favorite health-and-wealth-pastor name: “Creflo Dollar!”
On the other hand…it just shows how irrevelant our little Reformed ghetto is to the larger culture.
No, I was edged out by the …
No. Stop tempting me. This is like a sarcasm banquet when I am trying to diet. It’s like being dumped in a roomful of soft lumber with a saw (inside joke having to do with book defending sarcase entitle “Serrated Edge”).
Garrett, we *are* irrelevant. But this list pushes the pope down into the lowest ten. It can’t really function as an indicator of much.
How many divisions does the pope have.
Do take a good look at the picture of Paul Crouch jr. 🙂
BTW, I saw a few of the NOOMA films from Rob Bell and enjoyed those, so there are a handful of decent people in there.
Evangelical Outpost has an interesting analysis of the list.
I’ll just copy what I posted on Alastair’s website:
I would rather have 1 pastor shepherding and influencing a small congregation in St. Louis (Jeff Meyers/Mark Horne, Providence Reformed PCA) or Norman Oklahoma (Mike Biggs/Doug Serven, Christ the King PCA) or Edinburgh (Derek Lamond, St. Columba’s Free Church) than all the spots on this list. This list does nothing but measure how many people know someone’s name. I know men who change people’s lives.
btw: if irrelevant means not making this list sign me up. I feel confident that at any given time those who have done the most for Christendom would make a list like this. Does anyone think St. Paul would have made a list of top 50 Influential Jews in his day?