So you're admitting Rick's in it for the money then?
I wouldn't have a problem with that if the teaching was in line with Scripture. But we all know that the true Gospel doesn't make a person much money, don't we?
Tell me about the finances of the book proceeds please. Thank you.
Even TIME magazine acknowledged:
Though criticized for preaching Christianity lite, Warren led by example, giving away 90% of his royalties, campaigning against hunger and expanding a drug-recovery program for prison inmates link
Do you really think he's in it for the money?
Mindful of the checkered history of high-profile evangelists, Warren and his wife seem determined to be the anti — Jim and Tammy Faye. "I want to live above reproach," says the man whose role model is Billy Graham, explaining why he avoids being alone with women other than his wife. The Warrens, who have three grown children, live comfortably but relatively modestly in a $360,000 tract home and the reverend drives a Ford SUV. In 2003, with royalties from the bestseller pouring in, Warren stopped taking his $110,000 annual salary from Saddleback and refunded all of the salary the church had paid him over 24 years. The Warrens keep only 10% of the book royalties and give the rest away to Saddleback and to the charitable foundations they established to support the church's mission projects, which include fighting poverty, illiteracy, and disease — especially AIDS — here and abroad. link