In this post Phil Johnson begins with:

Some random but loosely-connected thoughts about the Fad-Driven Church have been accumulating in my subconscious while I’ve been reposting those old entries about evangelical fads. So I’ve decided to interrupt the process of reposting old entries and take a load off my mind today…

Why is it that those who seem to talk most about originality are always so lemminglike? Take Erwin Raphael McManus, for instance. (Is there anyone more pretentious in all the world of postmodern religion?)… I confess I do not understand the near-reverential respect McManus’s admirers lavish on him. Sure, if you read his own PR about himself, you might think he is the most wonderfully creative and forward-thinking guy ever to grace a platform. But I can’t think of a single idea he has proposed that is not somehow adapted from the standard seeker-sensitive repertoire, cherry-picked from Emerging postmodernism, or purloined from some neo-gnostic playbook. Can you?