Saddleback Forum

Right now I'm watching the Saddleback Forum and Rick Warren is interviewing Barack Obama. Here's the deal: no matter how you feel about the candidates, it was totally brilliant for Warren to bring these two guys to Saddleback. When was the last time an evangelical church was at the foreforont of the political process?

As Ed Stetzer calls them, the "Pajamahadeen" will be out in full force on this one, and will only further alienate themselves in cyberspace. These are the Rick Warren haters, and I've read enough of their stuff (out of necessity at times) to believe that they hate Rick Warren and other outreach-oriented pastors more than they love Jesus Christ.

The truth is, most of these midnight pajama-wearing bloggers have no visionary or leadership skills. To be clever is not to be intelligent, nor is it to be effective. They could never even dream of accomplishing for Christ what Warren has, and so they are left to pick at the edges, and they will go to their graves knowing they were not much more than unpaid pundits who should have spent more time watching their own lives and not standing in judgement of others.

...okay, that was a "rock"... something I commit not to throw on this blog, but there's been a lot of ugliness out there in the name of Jesus.

Warren is at the top of his game tonight, to be sure, and I say, way to go.

Warren: "What does it mean to trust in Christ?"

Obama: "I believe that Jesus Christ died for my sins, and I am redeemed through him."

Where else are you going to hear that question?

Interesting stuff...