The new DisciplesWorld magazine hit my desk this week and contains an interesting article reflecting on The Purpose Driven Life.  Probably everybody has reviewed the book by now, but there was this very interesting paragraph:

Both the right and the left are particularly suspicious of the way Warren handles scripture.  The Purpose-Driven Life has about a thousand biblical quotations, almost all of them cited without reference to any context whatsoever.  This de-contextualization has the strange effect of turning every citation - whether from Genesis, Isaiah, Matthew, or Ephesians - into wisdom literature.  In other words, Proverbs is the controlling biblical genre, and it beats the cadence to which everything else in scripture marches.  The texts quoted are cherry-picked from multiple translations and paraphrases, many of them quite trendy.

I wish I had written that!  It says so well what I have felt about those who pick Bible passages from here and there and construct whole theologies from them.