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

Will the Real Rick Warren...Please Stand Up! Intro
Brad Reiches
May 21 2007 01:39PM

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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Monday, May 22, 2007
GodThoughtsWired!

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

INTRODUCTION

"Woe to you when all men speak well of you,

for their fathers used to treat the false prophets in the same way."

Luke 6:26 (bold mine)

-"Rick Warren is arguably the most influential pastor in America." -The Economist

-"The Purpose Driven Life is the epicenter of a spiritual shockwave taking root across America." -ABC News

-"Business and political leaders across America are turning to Rick Warren for guidance." -The London Times

-"Movie stars and political leaders aren't the only ones turning to Rick Warren for spiritual guidance.  Millions of people - from NFL and LPGA players to corporate  executives to high school students to prison inmates - meet regularly to discuss the Purpose Driven Life." -Time Magazine

-"More than three years after the book was published...it remains on the New York Times best seller list.  It has also been translated into 56 languages." -Newsweek Magazine, 12/15/05

-"...offers are regularly coming in from government, the business world, and even Hollywood, seeking Warren's help in understanding The Purpose Driven Life. -Florida Baptist Witness

-"Selling at up to 1 million copies per month, it (The Purpose Driven Life) has been the best-selling new book in the world since 2003." -Christianity Today, October 2005

-"Time magazine named him one of '15 World Leaders Who Mattered Most in 2004' and in 2005 one of the '100 Most Influential People in the World.'  Also, in 2005 U.S. News & World Report named him one of 'America's 25 Best Leaders.'" -In The Name of Purpose, p. 147.

-"All of a sudden I'm going up on Capitol Hill and talking to guys.  Producers in Hollywood are asking me to come up and discuss the book with eight or nine major studio producers." -Rick Warren

-"And then I flew to Philadelphia where this last weekend I was the chaplain for Live 8.  Try being a chaplain for rock stars; that's a lot of fun.  That's a lot of fun." -Rick Warren

"If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me

before it hated you.  If you were of the world, the world

would love its own, but I chose you out of the world,

because of this the world hates you...I (Jesus) have given

them (disciples) Your (the Father) word; and the world

has hated them because they are not of the world...

And you shall be hated of all men for my name's sake..."

John 15:18-19; 17:14 ; Mark 13:13 (bold mine)

Rick Warren and his Purpose Driven Life is being accepted in virtually every walk of life.  Tens of millions in business, politics, rock n' roll, sports, Hollywood and religions of all kind are embracing the "life philosophy" of Dr. Rick Warren.

Hmmm...

 

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