His
Own Words and Ideas |
"You
should also require those joining to attend a new members class,
he said. 'A strong membership class will produce a strong church.'
At Saddleback Church, the required membership class teaches basic
doctrine on subjects such as salvation, the foundation of the
church's belief statements, the purpose-driven strategy of the
church, and the congregation's structure. In addition, Saddleback
requires new members to sign a membership covenant. 'When your
church adopts a membership covenant, you are choosing who stays!'
said Warren." From
pastors.com, Believe, belong and become.
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quotes by Warren
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The
Serious Problems with Rick Warren's Purpose Driven Life
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The Spiritual Direction of Rick Warren |
As Rick Warren moves ahead toward his global peace agenda, working with virtually anyone or any group who rallies behind him, he has moved to the forefront of evangelical leaders who are propagating the contemplative prayer movement (i.e., spiritual formation). In essence, he has become an evangelist for contemplative spirituality. For those who realize that contemplative (that is mystical meditation) is the driving force behind the kingdom-now, heaven-on-earth emerging church movement, this is an alarming deduction. - Rick Warren Plays "Catch Me if You Can" While Promoting Mysticism
On The Emerging Church:
New Age sympathizer Leonard Sweet, who will be training church leaders and pastors at the 2008 Saddleback Small Groups Conference in April, is accepted by Rick Warren as a trustworthy source of Christian leadership. However, Sweet's view of the value of small groups lines up more with the New Age and Alice Bailey than it does with biblical Christianity. In his book, Quantum Spirituality, Sweet states:
The power of small groups is in their ability to develop the discipline to get people "in-phase" with the Christ consciousness and connected with one another. Read more.
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"Rick
Warren and others say we need to pay attention to the emerging
church. Things are changing, they say and the "emerging
church" has the answers for our generation. But what
will the emerging church emerge into? Could it be a form
of Christianity that embraces experience rather than God's
Word?"—Roger Oakland, Understand the Times. Read Entire Article
On Poor Bible Translations:
Rick
Warren's use of the paraphrase,
The Message, for much of his writings.
We bring this to your attention because we believe
too many people are using The Message as a literal
translation, which it is not.
On Theology:
"Warren
teaches that God 'created the church to meet your five
deepest needs' just as the Roman Catholic Church says,
'The Church is the mother of all believers.' Warren, like
Rome, has switched from obedience to the Word and Person
of the Living God to submission to a church to
achieve one's needs. It is the oldest and cleverest temptation
known to man."—Richard Bennett, The
Adulation of Man in the Purpose-Driven Life
"The
Purpose Driven Life maintains
and promotes a poor theology stemming from an inadequate bibliology. Verses are used out of context ..." Read
more — Tim Todd
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"The
video on exponential growth, presented by Warren, is one
of the most shocking teachings I have ever seen emerge" ...Read on
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Click
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"For
the message of the Cross is foolishness to
those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved, it is the power of God." I Corinthians 1:18
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Rick
Warren's Plans
for the Future
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"Personal
computers have brand names. But inside every pc is an Intel chip
and an operating system, Windows," Warren says. "The Purpose Driven
paradigm is the Intel chip for the 21st-century church and the
Windows system of the 21st-century church."—Rick
Warren, Christianity Today, Oct. 2005
"Since
we are to work with "the man of peace" in each village, I came
up with a P.E.A.C.E. Plan that our members at Saddleback could
get a hold of."—Rick
Warren
"I
believe that we are possibly on the verge of a New Reformation
in Christianity and another Great Awakening in our nation," said
Warren. "The signs are everywhere, including the popularity of
this book."
—Rick Warren,
Rick
Warren's own words:
11 characteristics
of an emerging PD church
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