just a rant before i go, to whom it may concern...

i'm about to leave the office and head home. (One of those rare school days when neither son wanted to catch a ride from their dad.) but please excuse this little micro-tirade. i just received two books to review from two of our learned professors of SBC seminaries. wonderful covers, very fine manufacturing of the books. very classy... but oh what boredom! I struggled to get past the first page and keep my attention set. These are the kinds of books that should be read over loud speakers in terrorist training camps. It would render them powerless due to the lethargy. Passive verbs, over written, disinterested and dispassionate! How could God be glorified with such boring analysis of His Word.

So many such uninteresting reflections. These are the books our future pastors must read to get grades. When analogies were made they were shallow and inconsequential.

What is the use of correct theology if it drives people insane with boredom? What is the use of conservative preaching if it become flat and impersonal?

Thanks for the therapy, dearest blog. Names of the books? I'll never tell.

Comments

[John]

But I bet the Turabian was perfect! "Pastor" does not equal "writer".

[john the lesser]

Hey Matt,
Reminded me of Soren K.,



People with experience maintain that proceeding from a basic principle is supposed to be very reasonable; I yield to them and proceed from the basic principle that all people are boring. Or is there anyone who would be boring enough to contradict me in this regard? This basic principle has to the highest degree the repelling force always required in the negative, which is actually the principle of motion. It is not merely repelling but infinitely repulsive, and whoever has the basic principle behind him must necessarily have infinite momentum for making discoveries. If, then, my thesis is true, a person needs only to ponder how corrupting boredom is for people, tempering his reflections more or less according to his desire to diminish or increase his impetus, and if he wants to press the speed of the motion to the highest point, almost with danger to the locomotive, he needs only to say to himself: Boredom is the root of all evil. It is very curious that boredom, which itself has such a calm and sedate nature, can have such a capacity to initiate motion. The effect that boredom brings about is absolutely magical, but this effect is one not of attraction but of repulsion.

[matt tullos]

Great quote. Going to add it to my quotes area!