[EdJay]

"When you start including the cults and false or incomplete religions, you are the way to compromise...and that is not pleasing to our Lord."

I don't think he compromises. Yes, he says that he welcomes "Catholics, Methodists, Mormons, Jews and ordained women" to study in his training programs. But if they come, they are going to hear the basic principles of the SBC. It hardly sounds as though he's compromising on the essentials of the faith. Reread the article.

"All his senior staff sign on to the SBC's doctrines, such as the literal and infallible Bible and exclusion of women as senior pastors. [...] Warren does draw absolute lines theologically. It's Jesus or hell. "Every human being is created by God, not everyone is a child of God," he writes in Life."

[LiteKeeper]

I agree regarding his theology - but I personally draw the line at training cultists...and that is what I think Mormonism is. I would never allow them into the training. It only feeds their wrongheadedness about being Christians - which they are not!

[Colofornian]

Warren does draw absolute lines theologically

If he does, he didn't communicate it well in this article (or he was misquoted).

Even aside from whether or not Mormons, Jews, etc. are welcome in his training sessions, to indicate that he believes the line that divides to be "non-essential" is not a very theologically savvy thing to say (or fail to clarify).