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  • If you're not Purpose Driver(r), you're not a church.

    05/19/2007 1:37:15 PM PDT · by Lee N. Field · 67 replies · 996+ views
    Extreme Theology ^ | May 15, 2007 | Chris Rosebrough
    Rick Warren: “Any church that fails to fulfill the five purposes...is not really a church!” by Chris RosebroughYes you read that headline correctly. That is a quote from Rick Warren in Mark Kelly’s latest spin piece for Saddleback entitled “Seven myths about ‘Purpose Driven’” The piece itself has two wildly surreal statements in it, that if you consider what is really being said, ought to make you question the entire ‘Purpose Driven’ church concept. The first is a quote from Rick Warren himself: Rick Warren says: “The five purposes of the church commanded by Jesus in the Great Commandment and...
  • Change Dividing Southern Baptist Mega-Church

    09/23/2006 5:59:13 PM PDT · by hiho hiho · 106 replies · 5,752+ views
    Ethics Daily ^ | September 22, 2006 | Bob Allen
    Rick Warren's "Purpose-Driven" church model is being blamed in a developing split in one of the Southern Baptist Convention's most prominent churches. Two weeks ago the Wall Street Journal carried a front-page story saying Warren's church-growth methods--which include replacing hymns, choirs and pews with rock-style praise bands and laid-back sermons--were dividing the country's 50 million evangelicals. Baptist Press defended Warren, a Southern Baptist, by implying the Journal story made a mountain out of a molehill. "The 2,200-word story cites four congregations where upheaval occurred from a move toward the principles espoused by Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest,...