The Hidden Dangers Of Rick Warren
Be Warned of this Raging Wolf
One of America’s Cultists

Think on These Things
(Philippians 4:8)

Rick Warrens Purpose Driven Life methords are no diffrent from Tony Robbins Entitled Unleash the Power with in.

http://www.tonyrobbins.com/Home/Home.aspx

"Tony Robbins' original life-changing program, Personal
Power, had helped millions of people take control of
every aspect of their lives - financially, physically,
Mentally, and emotionally."

"He'll show you, step-by-step, how to get from where you
are to where you want to be."

These are some of the techniques that "Warren" uses

• How to awaken and unleash your driving force and take
consistent action!

• How to use "your greatest motivator" to get yourself to
take action even when you don't feel like it !

• How to find out what you really want out of life and how to get it!

• How to use the power of questions to get what you want!

• How to change your limiting beliefs that have been holding you back from being the best you can be!

• How to use the "Dicken's Pattern" to create powerful change
at lightning speed!

• How to set and achieve goals for every important area of
your life!

• How to identify the most common kinds of fears and
overcome them!

• How to eliminate self-sabotage and create unstoppable
self-confidence in whatever you do!

”This is a dangerous trend that will lead to nothing ...
to how far the misrepresentation of God’s truth can ...
exactly how virtually every cult and heresy is started”

People Should Goto the bible and not these people for any kind
of revelation from any one or even new teachings if it looks to good to be true then it is. If it sounds to good to the ear then its far from the truth. Jer 6:16 - "Thus says the LORD, "Stand by the ways and see and ask for the ancient paths, Where the good way
is, and walk in it; And you will find rest for your souls. But
they said, 'We will not walk {in it.}' (NASB)

Be Warned !!!!!!

http://www.pawcreek.org/articles/endtimes/The Purpose
Driven LifeGoldenCalf.htm

Major Problems With Rick Warren’s
The purpose Driven Church and
The Purpose Driven Life books

1. Declares that there are many different pathways to a relationship with God.

2. States that circumstances help you become like Jesus more than the Word of God.

3. Uses totally false paraphrases of the Word of God.

4. Teaches contemplative religion, not experiential new birth salvation.

5. Totally compromises with godless music.

6. Reduces the church to a sociological club seeking status with the world.

7. It is "Robert Schullerism" at its worst.

8. The best description of this book is "Religious Humanism."

9. It is totally ecumenical in nature and has a powerful "Evangelical and Roman Catholic Together" basis.

“ Nothing is more powerful to destroy than beautiful truths packaged in religious garb. It’s the modern day “golden calf” lining the shelves of our “Christian” bookstores.

The greatest battle raging in the present day church is “Robert Schullerism.

” We could call it “Norman Vincent Pealism” or “religious humanism".

” All of these names describe the positive thinking, Seeker/Sinner-friendly fads that are close to totally dominating the American church and spreading worldwide. Mix this religious fad with loud and soulish contemporary music,
from rock to rap, and that is the musical style of these sinner-friendly churches; and it is appealing to the multitudes.

The religious emotion of the unregenerate soul is almost exactly the same as a genuine spiritual emotion.

The inner witness of the spiritual is certainly a world above these surface emotions.”

http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1506ch8.html

Outcome-based Religion:
Purpose-Driven Apostasy

DEFINING THE TERMS

The definitions utilized by the proponents of Outcome-based Religion be must be carefully evaluated.

As discussed in a previous chapter, definitions of certain words (such as tolerance) have been changed by the modern culture. Thus, words or terms with one definition in a previous generation may be completely changed by a subsequent culture.

While for the most part, this process is completely innocent, the redefining of terms may also be used as a deceptive ploy in manipulating those who are functioning under the misapprehension of the previous or out-dated definition.

Therefore, it is critical that proper definitions be utilized when interpreting the rules of the church game. The following definitions and explanations must be understood:

PURPOSE-DRIVEN CHURCH

The Purpose-Driven Church is a term coined by Pastor Rick
Warren of Saddleback Community Church south of Los Angeles.

The idea is that a church should set its sights on its ultimate purpose and structure its methodology to achieve that purpose.

The term “purpose-driven” is synonymous with “outcome-based”. In his book, The Purpose-Driven Church, Warren lists the process of becoming “purpose-driven”.

For the purposes of this report, the word “outcome” has been substituted for “purpose”. The meaning is the same. His plan is as follows:

• Define the Outcome
• Demand the Outcome
• Base activities to achieve the Outcome
• Initiate the program to achieve the outcome.

The outcome in this case is exponential church growth.

NEW PARADIGM CHURCH - Again, Pastor Rick Warren, in his
groundbreaking book, The Purpose Driven Church, states that his book is written to offer a “new paradigm”.

(2) The basic definition of new paradigm relates a “new way of thinking”. In this case, a new way of thinking about how to “do church”. Reason dictates that if this is a new way of thinking in the ministry, the old way of thinking must be seriously flawed.

This must then lead one to evaluate the “old way” as critiqued by Pastor Warren in his book.The “old way of thinking”, according to Warren, is characterized for the most part by those who continue to attempt to communicate the Gospel to our modern culture in an “outdated style”.

(3) Warren’s philosophy exhibits the pre-immanence of style over substance, which is contrary to the heart of biblical teaching. The Bible declares that a man is to “Study to show himself approved. Rightly dividing the Word of truth...”

(4) The Bible is also clear that God speaks to His children through His revealed Word. The day of dreams and visions (in spite of the erroneous teachings of those involved in the Charismatic Movement) are past (I Corinthians 13). However, when one advocates style over substance in the case of a church, that individual is, in essence, stating that the process used in growing the Church is more important than the doctrinal teaching of the Church. Warren dismisses any problem with this dangerous methodology by declaring, “...Your style of worship says more about your cultural background than it does about your theology.”

(5) If this were the case, and if culture dictated a worship style utilizing acid rock music, drugs, and orgies - would this not imply a flawed theology?

This illustration may well be absolutely ludicrous, but it clearly exhibits the extremes that can be derived from the so-called “new paradigm” approach to ministry.

Secondly, the New Paradigm Church is intentionally designed for rapid growth, for church growth is the desired outcome of Outcome-based Religion. In order to achieve this outcome, the design of this type church is based on business principles and marketing demographics.

The problem that arises from this methodology is seen in the biblical revelation,

“the preaching of the cross is foolishness to them that perish”
(I Corinthians 1:18). The Bible also teaches that Jesus himself is
“a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense”.

(I Peter 2:8) Based on this seeming contradiction, the question then must be posed:

How do you market a product that is offensive and foolish?

The answer is simple. You must change the product’s “curb appeal” in order to divert the perception from one of offensiveness and foolishness into that which will appeal to the target market. These necessary changes inevitably result in a departure from the Word of God and a creeping apostasy that will ultimately erase the last trace of truth in a very short
period of time.

A final and very disturbing aspect of the “new paradigm” label is the fact that the term “paradigm” was popularized in the late 1970s and early 1980s by Marilyn Ferguson in her book, The Aquarian Conspiracy.

This book was another groundbreaking work that characterized the inner working of the New Age Movement with the term “Paradigm Shift”. Ms. Ferguson contended that new spirituality garnered by New Age philosophies would eventually lead to a “critical mass” in human consciousness to bring about a major Paradigm Shift to initiate a new level in evolution from homo sapiens to homo noeticus, the god-man. To equate Rick Warren with Marilyn Ferguson may seem to be unfair,
but a few simple questions should be asked:

Why would a Baptist preacher incorporate New Age terminology to describe his new methodology of church growth?

Should any Bible-believing Christian utilize any type of terminology that would equate him (fairly or unfairly) with those involved in occult practices?

Should not common sense dictate that such comparisons would be drawn with the utilization of this terminology?

Would some involved in occult practices not possibly see this terminology as a signal that things are not as they actually appear in the Church Growth Movement?

Though all of these questions may be answered in a positive manner, just the use of this terminology is at the very least—disconcerting.

The Truth Behind Seeker-Sensitive Churches

Christian churches that provide services designed to make non-Christians ("seekers") feel welcome in a pressure-free, culturally-relevant atmosphere.

Jonathan Edward's "Sinners in the hands of an angry God" wouldn't be heard in a seeker-sensitive meeting.

The Gospel is presented through modern worship, skits, and jargon-free, brief speeches.

(John Wimber), in his testimony, recounted how Christianese initially puzzled him. When his wife took him to a church service, someone asked him, "Have you been washed in the blood?" Wimber says he wondered, "When do they make you do that?")

Seeker-friendly churches are sometimes criticized by Christians who feel the Gospel message is being watered-down. Others claim such churches are employing business marketing techniques rather than engaging in evangelism.

Seeker-sensitive churches also must remain relevant to established Christians looking for nurture:

One fundamental of the SFC [Seeker-Friendly Church] movement is that the same service cannot target both seekers and believers. It is said that you can reach one or the other but not both.

Most thoughtful proponents of the straight seeker-service agree that it is not worship, and cannot give Christians proper nurture.

Therefore, in many churches in the SFC movement, a 'seeker-focused' service is targeted for the unchurched, and some other weekly believer-focused service becomes the worship service for believers. In many other SFC churches, there is only one main weekly service which serves believers and the unchurched.

This is called 'seeker-sensitive' worship.

Evangelistic worship: The problems of praise and worship and making it relevant to all - and a review of the SFC (Seeker Friendly Church) Movement , Evangelicals Now, Dec. 1998

http://www.apologeticsindex.org/news/an200312b.html

On Religion: A mega church with a message for smaller churches
Naples News/Scripps Howard News Service, Mar. 4, 2000
(Terry Mattingly Column)

(...) Saddleback looks like a textbook megachurch, the kind that keeps inspiring sociologists to rush to their computers. The Rev. Rick Warren and friends mailed 15,000 invitations to their first service in 1980 and the church had 10,000 members before it built a sanctuary. Today, 15,000 or more attend five ''seeker friendly'' weekend services. The sunny baptismal pool welcomes a river of newcomers, with 1,638 baptized in 1999.

(...) But this wasn't a megachurch sermonette for folks used to clutching a TV remote. Warren regularly preaches between 50 minutes and an hour, working his way through a dozen scripture passages and waves of illustrations from the news and daily life. Seeker-friendly sermons do not have to be short and shallow, he said.

''The idea that postmodern people will not listen to a 'talking head' for 45 minutes is pure myth,'' he said. ''Of course, most people, including many preachers, couldn't hold an audience for 10 minutes. But that's due to their communication style, not the supposed short attention span of unbelievers.

Any communicator who is personal, passionate, authentic and applies the scriptures to real life will have no trouble holding the attention of our generation.''

Critics may scoff, but this Southern Baptist congregation is committed to developing techniques to help churches with 150 members, as well as 15,000.

Saddleback services rarely include comedy and drama, because small churches struggle to find talented writers and actors. Saddleback rarely uses high-tech media in its services, because small churches don't have the resources to do so.

That's OK. Warren said that ''if all seekers were looking for was a quality production, they'd stay home and watch TV, where millions are spent to produce half-hour programs.''

(...) Churches don't have to be shallow to appeal to the heads and hearts of unbelievers, stressed Warren. In fact, just the opposite is true.

' 'Unbelievers wrestle with the same deep questions believers have,'' he said.

'' Who am I ? Where did I come from ? Where am I going? Does life make sense? Why is there suffering and evil in the world? What is my purpose in life? How can I learn to get along with people? These are certainly not shallow issues.''

Critiques and Commentaries of Concern Relevant to

Growing Families International

03/15/02

11/13

Focus on the Family: letter of concern regarding GFI, original letter 1993 with revisions at varying intervals,

current revision released August 20, 1999. Although the wording of Focus on the Family’s letter has varied, the organization has consistently stated that it does not
recommend GFI’s materials to its constituents. See also Terner and Miller, October- December 1998, listed above.

Grace Community Church: “A Statement Regarding Gary Ezzo and Growing Families International by the board of elders of Grace Community Church.”

Gary Ezzo developed his materials while a staff member at Grace. The church has publicly disavowed all association with GFI. Original statement issued October 16, 1997:

Rev. Doug Haag, pastor of family ministries, Evangelical Free Church, Fullerton (California): theological review in “Religious Parenting Programs: Their relationship to Child Abuse
Prevention,” presented by the Child Abuse Prevention Council of Orange County Parenting Program Review Committee (listed under “child Development/Psychology,” above).


http://www.rapidnet.com/~jbeard/bdm/Psychology
/ccc/ccc.htm

Campus Crusade for Christ

(Crusade for Who?)

The "Beyond All Limits" pastor's conference convened in Orlando, FL, Jan. 17-19, 2002. Bill Bright had the vision for this. The purpose was twofold: first, to minister to the 5,000 pastors assembled at First Baptist Church, and second, to launch a
new Internet program for training pastors for the new millennium, the Global Pastors Network (GPN).

The ambitious plan to network (join together in common fellowship, ministry, and purpose) and instruct virtually every Christian worker in the world by way of the Internet and satellite technology in the decade ahead was impressive. The proposed global synergistic church model, an ecumenically-styled network of churches and ministries where doctrinal issues are set aside, and all who say they love Jesus will join together to reach the world for Christ.

Speakers included Jerry Falwell, Joe Stowell, Gary Smalley, Rick Warren, and Joseph Trask. Charismatics were also well represented (Jack Hayford, and PK's Bill McCartney), and stressed the need for no divisions to exist between all
Christians. The above speakers and the following other ministries are part of 200 already committed to the GPN: Kay Arthur, Henry Blackaby, Bill Bright, Chuck Colson, Jim Cymbala, James Dobson, John Hagee, David Jeremiah, John Kilpatrick,
Erwin Lutzer, Chuck Swindoll, and Bruce Wilkinson. A conference leader said: In the future, those [pastors] who are not networking will not be working. (Reported in the 5/02, Calvary Contender.)

- Announced at a press conference on 3/29/94 was an ecumenical declaration titled "Evangelicals and Catholics Together: The Christian Mission in the Third Millennium" (ECT). The negotiations toward the declaration were initiated in 9/92 by Chuck Colson and Richard Neuhaus (former Lutheran clergyman turned Catholic priest) under the auspices of the ecumenical and theologically liberal Institute on Religion and Public Life (headed by Neuhaus).

The declaration starts with " We are Evangelical Protestants and Roman Catholics who have been led through prayer, study, and discussion to common convictions about Christian faith and mission." It goes down hill from there. The coalition specifically called for an end to aggressive proselytizing of each other's flocks (in effect, a mutual non-aggression pact), and even confessed their past sins against unity.

The declaration said: "All who accept Christ as Lord and Savior are brothers and sisters in Christ." This conveniently ignores the fact that Catholics espouse a works-salvation false gospel! In a revealing admission of what brought these groups together, some signers said it was the experiences of worshiping together in the charismatic movement and working together in political causes such as anti-abortion [Moral Majority for example]. In fact, one writer correctly assessed that the declaration "amounts to a truce on theological issues so that the parties can continue to cooperate on political issues."

http://www.piney.com/MadCovMember.html

The Work And Authority of Elders

Work and Authority of Elders: Covenant of Membership: Sowing
Discord Musically at Madison Church of Christ, Nashville.

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. Phil 4:8

"Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you." Phil 4:9

THERE NEVER IS A MUSIC TERM CONNECTED WITH THE WORSHIP OF GOD IN ANY DISPENSATION. Music is frequently identified as the cause and MARK that one will not listen to the words of Christ.

All musical terms and names of instruments (many Greek even in the OT) have roots in that which is evil, destructive (melody or psallo) or even Satanic.

http://www.deceptioninthechurch.com/warrenquotes.html

Rick Warren Connections especially to the ecumenical Third Wave New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) and "Positive
Thinking" Movement.

compiled by Sandy Simpson, 1/04
Ecumenical Unity

The message, which was titled "The Potential of a Single Life,
" was a witty, motivational challenge to single people to dedicate
themselves to God. Rick Warren said, "You are as happy as you
choose to be. You can waste your life on vanities, spend your life
on yourself, and invest your life for God." Mother Teresa was
used as an example, with no warning about her false gospel.

http://www.deceptioninthechurch.com/criwarren.html

Hank Hanegraaf & CRI Continue To Endorse Rick Warren by Sandy Simpson, 1/30/04

I wrote an email to Hank in 12/03 about my concerns regarding Rick Warren's influence in the churches. I asked them to further investigate his ties to ecumenism, Robert Schuller, the Third Wave, New Apostolic Reformation, etc. I have many articles detailing his connections and his unbiblical statements. Here is a list of them:

I wrote an email to Hank in 12/03 about my concerns regarding Rick Warren's influence in the churches. I asked them to further investigate his ties to ecumenism, Robert Schuller, the Third Wave, New Apostolic Reformation, etc. I have many articles detailing his connections and his unbiblical statements. Here is a list of them:

Niche Marketing, Audience-Driven, Full Service Churches: How We Got Here?

by Orrel Steinkamp, The Plumbline, Volume 8, No. 1, January/February 2003

Proponents of Willow-Creek Seeker Sensitive evangelism and the wider public have little knowledge of the historical genealogy of this movement. Most simply assume that George Barna and
associates originated the marketing model now employed widely
in seeker sensitive evangelism. Barna, however, is a late-comer,
who actually adapted and expanded ideas that had been earlier
discovered by Robert Schuller.

The Market-Driven Church
by Gary Gilley, 6/00

While we will examine the writing of various individuals who speak for the market-driven movement, we will focus often on the two flagship churches: Saddleback Valley Community Church in Orange County, California, and Willow Creek Community Church near Chicago.

These churches serve as the models that are reshaping the way we "do church" today. As a matter of fact, many refer to these churches and their clones as "new paradigm churches."

Churches all over the world, even those who would claim to reject the church growth movement, are imitating the many methods promoted by Saddleback and the "Creekers." Others have written about church growth, but these two churches have made it work, and for their success they are idolized and adored by the modern evangelical community.

Critique of the "Seeker-Sensitive, Purpose-Driven" Church Method.

by Pastor Dan Norcini, Copyright © 1999 Sovereign Grace Bible Church

These early Christians knew what to expect for confessing Jesus Christ before men. They knew the price they paid would be dear but they possessed something which made all of their tribulations seem light and momentary (2Cor 4:17) – genuine faith working through genuinely fervent love for the person of Jesus, who had loved them and given Himself for them. Can the same be said of any of the converts of this system? Time and the providence of God will tell. 10 part series.

My Visit To Saddleback Church

by David Cloud, Fundamentalist Baptist Information Service, 11/03

Rick Warren claims that he has not compromised the Word of God with his principles and methods, that he has only modernized them; but when I look into the book of Acts and the Epistles, I see a different kind of Christianity, a different kind of church there,than the one that Rick Warren has devised. Thus, I must reject Warren's Purpose-Driven methods and I must warn those who have an ear to hear, regardless of how small that crowd may be, that they not heed the siren call of the contemporary church growth gurus.

http://www.deceptioninthechurch.com/profitdrivenchurch.html

The "Profit-Driven" Church by Sandy Simpson, 3/04

The Purpose-Driven Church, Purpose-Driven Life and every other "purpose- driven" program that Rick Warren of Saddleback Church is selling to the Christian masses at the moment has an underlying agenda that is hardly highlighted by the Church or Christians. The church growth strategies that seem to work equally well for Christians, Mormons, Jews, Catholics and any other religion1

have a solid "profit-driven" motive built into the programs. If you meet the "felt needs" of people, they will come. And when they come they bring their checkbooks with them. The more that come, the merrier. The more people, the more money, the more programs, the more political "apostolic" power. Though these programs claim to be focused on the needs of people, the profit part of the equation is never far form the surface.
Bruce Wilkinson's "Jabez" book purported to teach people how to claim God's blessing by demanding that He "expand their territories". But the Jabez book expanded into a Jabez
empire, giving Wilkinson and others of like mind a "financial anointing" to foist more wealth building programs on the churches ... all in the name of building God's kingdom. Of course,
somebody forgot that it is God Who builds His Church and His Kingdom, and often His methods are radically different from those whose methods are based on business savvy, statistics, and false doctrines of health and wealth.

Purpose-Driven Life Sales

The Purpose-Driven Life is perhaps one of the highest selling books ever in the history of Christendom. The key to getting the book into churches has been a discipleship campaign called "40 Days of Purpose," which is coordinated with Warren's ministry at Saddleback Church. Incorporating a satellite simulcast highlighting Warren's teachings from the book, the
campaign has reached thousands of churches and directly resulted in sales well into six figures.2 Note this quote from the Fuller Seminary web site that sponsors Rick Warren's "Pastors.com":

The real runaway bestseller in the country right now is The Purpose-Driven Life by Rick Warren. It’s listed as #2 in your report, but you need to know that Nielsen, the N.Y. Times, and USA Today, et al - DO NOT COUNT any books sold through Christian bookstores. So, since October 2002, The
Purpose-Driven Life has actually sold nearly 13 MILLION COPIES (yes, THIRTEEN MILLION), meaning it is by far and away the #1 selling book in America. This year it’s even outsold Harry Potter; in fact, according to the numbers in your report, this non-fiction book has outsold both Harry Potter AND the DaVinci Code combined! And if you then add the sales for the South Beach Diet to the Potter/DaVinci numbers - it is
ONLY THEN that you get in the neighborhood of The Purpose-Driven Life booksales. To look at it another way, if you added up all the sales for the top 20 non-fiction books (based on Nielsen) listed in your article, you don’t come anywhere near matching THIRTEEN MILLION in sales (Ironic, huh, that BookScan captures 70-80% of all book sales in the U.S., but in this instance, they’re actually missing 70-80% of the sales!).

Yet, the national media has largely IGNORED this book! Millions of Americans are reading it and at least 25,000 churches from 80 different denominations have used (or will be using) it as a devotional, yet very few national media outlets see the significance of what is happening. I believe we’re seeing the first wave of what may be a great national revival and that Rick Warren may be the Billy Graham of our generation (Okay, I don’t claim to be objective; I do work for Rick, yet the THIRTEEN MILLION in sales gives you significant empirical evidence, and from our view, that means THIRTEEN MILLION people who have been touched by the transforming power of Christ).3

http://www.deceptioninthechurch.com/howto.html

The New "How To" Christianity Helpful Tools or Dangerous Weapons? "... the goal of Christian mission is not success, but faithful witness; not power, but proclamation; not technique, but truth; not method, but message." - Michael Horton, Power Religion, Moody Press, pg. 15

Apologetics Premise

The apologetics premise I am using, indeed the apologetics premise all true believers in Christ use, is the Word of God, the Scriptures, sola Scriptura. The authority of Scriptures in the life of the believer cannot be superseded by anything else. Not by words of prophecy, not by signs and wonders, not by experience, and certainly not by pragmatic Christian "How To" manuals. Pragmatism is defined as: the doctrine that the meaning of an idea or a proposition lies in its observable practical consequences. One of the underlying beliefs of those who practice pragmatic Christianity is that the end justifies any means to get there. If the means is not getting you to the
end, then the means are therefore not working and bad. C. Peter Wagner stated this in a book on Church Growth way back in 1976:

by Sandy Simpson, 8/00, revised 3/04

"... we ought to see clearly that the end DOES justify the means. What else possible could justify the means? If the method I am using accomplishes the goal I am aiming at, it is for that reason a good method. If, on the other hand, my method is not accomplishing the goal,how can I be justified in continuing to use it?"

(C. Peter Wagner, "Your Church Can Grow - Seven Vital Signs Of A Healthy Church", 1976, pg. 137. - emphasis in original)

Yet we see by Biblical examples that the goal of the early church was not to grow huge churches but to be sure the Gospel and sound doctrine were preached. The Apostles were looking for quality, not quantity (Eph. 4). But the Church Growth movement that is being promoted by people like Rick Warren of Saddleback, Bill Hybels of Willow Creek, Robert Schuller of Crystal Cathedral, Paul Yonggi Cho and others is teaching much of the Church today to be more concerned with an end result of big numbers than an end result of mature Christians (Heb. 5).
So therefore the means used differ dramatically from the means of the Apostles in the first century church.

http://www.deceptioninthechurch.com/orrel12.html

Niche Marketing, Audience-Driven, Full Service Churches: How We Got Here? By Orrel Steinkamp, The Plumbline, Volume 8, No. 1, January/February 2003.

"A new and more culturally adapted evangelicalism emerged the central
figures of which were no longer the scholars who had been prominent
in the immediate postwar years but rather a host of managers, planers
and bureaucrats - and not far behind them, marketeers. This new set
of leaders view growing a church or for that mater, any Christian ministry
as essentially no different from growing a business."

http://www.fundamentalbiblechurch.org/
Foundation/fbc Analysis.htm

An Analysis of Rick Warren's The Purpose-Driven® Life

by Matt Costella

This link abouve will show you Warren`s new book and gose
into deatail about the errors it creates.

This link abouve will show you Warren`s new book and gose into deatail about the errors it creates.

http://www.ascg.org/links.htm

American Society for Church Growth Member Links

Links to ASCG Members' Websites

Links are listed in alphabetical order by the last name of the ASCG member who is associated with that link.

Global Harvest Ministries C. Peter Wagner, Founder, President (ASCG Founding President)

The World Prayer Center C. Peter Wagner, Co-founder (ASCG Founding President)

Saddleback Valley Community Church Rick Warren, Founding Pastor (ASCG member at large)

http://www.billygraham.org/DMag_article.asp?
ArticleID=303

Billy Graham

A Conversation With Pat Boone

Pat Boone gives glory to God for the dramatic recovery of
Boone's grandson, Ryan, after a fall.

Q/ What do you say to those who have prayed for healing and for the recovery of loved ones without success?

A/ One of the first things I say, because it has happened to my mom and dad now, is that if they are Christians, then they have new bodies when they die. They are with Jesus; they have made it home to where we want to be. We don't have the whole
picture; we don't see things from His perspective.

I loved what Rick Warren,

the senior pastor of Saddleback Church, where Ryan attends, said to Larry King when he was asked if God couldn't have prevented this. "Well, of course He could have ... ," Rick said, "but God doesn't owe us an explanation." He has His reasons and they are good reasons. If we could understand God like God
does, we could be God, and that is not going to happen. But God does say that He will work everything together for good for those who love Him and are called according to His purpose (Cf. Romans 8:28). We see all kinds of good through this.

Watch this space!!!!!!