Today I was reading a short article by a well known minister on prayer.  I liked a lot of what he had to say - prayer is not just a shopping list we give to God and expect God to do for us, we need to act as well.  However, one bit was cringingly awful!

Citing Matthew 7, he observed that the intial letters of the three-fold command, Ask, Seek and Knock spell out... ASK, as if by divine guidance to re-enforce what he was saying.  Well, yes, in English they do, but they certainly don't spell out "aiteite" (though of course the Greek intial letters spell out AZK, so clearly God was speaking almost in English that day too.... not).  And of course it doesn't work with French or German (or any other language I suspect - is this demonstration that God is, in fact, English? ;-O )

Given this person trained at one of the colleges that has only relatively recently stopped expecting its students to arrive reasonably 'proficient' in Greek, this is all the more naff, methinks.