What Makes a Pharisee?

If we’re honest about it, much of blogging is incestuous. We find ideas somewhere, answer them, expand, and so the pattern repeats. Obviously, there is more than that, but a lot of the time we generate ideas by answering each other. I don’t have a problem admitting it. The entire convention of the “hat tip” is because of this.

This particular post, however, is a little bit more obviously so. Last night, I read on Matt Schultz’s “God, Politics, and Lessons Learned” blog a post which he had originally left as a comment on Joel’s “Sovereign God Ministries,” the post for which had actually been copied from Ingrid Schlueter’s “Slice of Laodicea.” The theme of these posts is one that represents a sore spot for me, really … very harsh criticism of churches which have a contemporary style.