About a week ago I finished Brian McLaren's A New Kind of Christian. Like most Christian book fare it had some good, yummy stuff in it, and some bad, yucky stuff.

I'll tell you what, right around page 100, the guru, Neo, started to really get on my nerves. At first I thought his character was fresh, smart, and intelligent. Then I started to sour on the fact that he ALWAYS had an answer and his answer always seemed to be on some higher plane than normal, and some would say, orthodox, Christian belief.

It was a decent read, but it wasn't exactly The Ninety-Five Theses on the Power of Indulgences. I do, though, wonder if McLaren is almost trying to set himself up as some sort of modern day Martin Luther; he even mentioned a parallel with Luther in the preface.

I can imagine Billy Graham telling this to McLaren:

I knew Martin Luther. Martin Luther was a friend of mine. Pastor, you're no Martin Luther.