Things that annoy me

1. Rob Bell's prose style

Here is a sample:

"He promises to send his Spirit to guide them and give them powers, but Jesus himself leave the future of the movement in their hands. And he doesn’t stick around to make sure they don’t screw it up. He’s gone. He trusts that they can actually do it.

God has an incredibly high view of people. God believes that people are capable of amazing things.

I have been told that I need to believe in Jesus. Which is a good thing. But what I am learning is that Jesus believe in me"

This is an oft-quoted passage from Velvet Elvis, mainly because it is based on a radical re-interpretation of the story of Jesus walking on the water (a radically wrong re-interpretation, by the way). Why do I think this is bad prose style? Read it. It is cheesy, cutesy, devoid of humor and logic, ignorantly humanistic.

Perhaps the most annoying thing is the way that Bell is ignorant of the historical philosophies that underpine his beliefs. He thinks that he has come up with them himself somehow. He is not new, not original. What is unique is that he has managed to package these ideas so that they are palatable to the masses.

2. Friends

The show. I do enjoy having them.

3. Ok so, maybe this list was artifically created for me to express annoyance at Rob Bell.