{"id":1394,"date":"2005-06-05T07:42:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-05T07:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianwarnock.com\/2005\/06\/pyromaniacs-warnie-acceptance-speach\/"},"modified":"2018-06-27T23:05:28","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T22:05:28","slug":"pyromaniacs-warnie-acceptance-speach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/adrianwarnock\/2005\/06\/pyromaniacs-warnie-acceptance-speach\/","title":{"rendered":"PyroManiac's Warnie acceptance speach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Phil of PyroManiac<\/a> was very kind in his acceptance speach:<\/p>\n

Dr. Adrian Warnock has the largest and most-read Christian blog in the UK. I first met him in cyberspace in April 1996, when The Spurgeon Archive was less than a year old. He helped index all of my sermons for the World Wide Study Bible project. I haven\u2019t kept up very well with him or the World Wide Bible, but I have read his blog from time to time over the past year or so, so I knew he was still active in cyberspace and ran an important blog.<\/p>\n

He surprised me by awarding PyroManiac with the coveted \u2018Warnie\u2019 award within days after we launched. Needless to say, I was greatly humbled and (as they say in the UK) gobsmacked.<\/p>\n

I looked up from the screen, tears of sheer joy in my eyes, and told my wife, \u2018Honey, I\u2019ve won a Warnie for my blog!\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018I knew you were totally going to embarrass yourself with that thing.\u2019 she said. \u2018I just can\u2019t believe you managed to do it the first week!'\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sadly it seems the praise and attention that has been showered on his blog has already gone to his head. Phil has sadly fallen into the all-too-familiar trap of bloggers. He has started referring to himself as \u201cWe\u201d. As far as I know pyromaniac is in fact a solitary rather than group blog- still Phil is not the first to make the slip and he wont be the last! I suspect that one valid excuse is that as a true church man he is used to in his preaching speaking of his church as \u201cwe\u201d and since I believe that the corporateness of church is so critical to its success<\/a> I will let him off this time!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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