Will the Real Rick Warren...Please Stand Up! 3

Will the Real Rick Warren...Please Stand Up! 3
Brad Reiches
May 24 2007 12:01AM

This GTWired! series is a response to the scriptural admonishon to examine everything carefully; hold fast to that which is good...examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so...Do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God..." (1 Thessalonians 5:21; Acts 17:11; 1 John 4:1). 

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Thursday, May 25, 2007
GodThoughtsWired!

"Will the Real Rick Warren...Please Stand Up!"

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"Kay and I, and our Saddleback team, have committed to spending

the rest of our lives sharing the message of Purpose and the strategy

of the PEACE Plan with every corner of the world..."

-Rick Warren, click on Article

What is the PEACE Plan that Warren says he and his wife and team are committed to spending the rest of their lives sharing?  Warren explains,

In the PEACE Plan the P stands for partnering with congregations.

You have to start locally...There are a lot of places in the world where

the only structure is religion...Find the man of peace...Who is the man

of peace?  He's influential and he's open.  He doesn't have to be a Christian.

Find a non-Christian who's influential and open - a Muslim or an atheist...

Partner with other houses of worship...Then you add in Muslims,

you add in Hindus, you add in all the different religions and you use

those houses of worship...Unity comes from purpose, not from anything else..."

click on Newsweek; Christianity Today; TIME Global Health Summit (bold mine)

So then, if my understanding is correct (and BELIEVE ME!, I hope that my understanding is wrong), Warren is committed to spending the rest of his life "partnering" with anyone of any religion, as long as they unified in the purpose of the Peace Plan?

"Do not be bound together with unbelievers;

for what partnership have righteousness with lawlessness,

or what fellowship has light with darkness...?"

2 Corinthians 6:14ff

In his recent book, Third Millennium Teens, George Barna reveals the following, HORRIFYING fact:

"63% of church-going, supposedly Christian teens said

they believed 'Muslims, Buddhists, Christians, Jews and

all other people pray to the same God, even though they

use different names for their God."

Hmmm...