Rick Warren was my pastor for a long time before I moved here. He's vastly misunderstood, but I'm not going to defend him yet again on these threads.
Call me unreasonable but when a pastor has a boasted 30 or 40 thousand people in his congregation, how can you know the person 10 pews down, let alone the pastor, up close and personal?
His quotes are real and those alone tell any reader what he's all about. But then again.....readers and observers who are not subject to his spell seem to see things a little more clearly.
He says enough about himself publicly that he should be well understood. If he cannot communicate clearly what he means, well then... he should reconsider his calling.