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Pastor Rick on Nightline Tonight
Pastor Rick is going to be on Nightline tonight, answering some hard questions about faith. Here’s a clip from their program that airs tonight.
“The history of this idea — ‘purpose driven’ — is not something I thought up in the first place,” Warren explains. “There have been hundreds of books throughout history that talked about worship, fellowship, discipleship, ministry and evangelism.”
But while these five purposes are biblically based, there is no denying that Warren has popularized these purposes around the world. He says he has trained 400,000 pastors worldwide to start purpose-driven churches. But it’s Warren’s untraditional use of the Christian language that may be the reason for his enormous following.
“I like to teach theology to people without telling them it’s theology and without using theological terms,” he said. “Simple does not mean simplistic. Simple does not mean superficial. Simple means it’s clear.”
JG
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Josh,
What about this clip. In it, Pastor Warren is blaming the strife that occurs in churchs whose pastors are trying to make them ‘purpose driven’ on those Christians who resist the change and believe that Pastors should be teaching the Bible instead of self-help messages.
I think Rick is terribly out of sync with scripture by changing the focuse of church from believers to non-believers. Here is the clip.
Warren said that if some churches may suffer as a result of applying some of those principles, then “that’s the price.”
“Every church has to make the decision. … Is it going to live for itself, or is it going to live for the world that Jesus died for?”
When asked if he thinks that some of these splits are actually because Christians themselves are indulgent and refusing to change, Warren said, “Oh, without a doubt.”
And when asked if he blames them, he replied, “I do blame them.”
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Why doesn’t he blame himself? He is the one who is changing what the church is supposed to be doing.