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Rick Warren on Christianity Today:
Oct 9th, 2008
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Categories: Today's Headlines;Rick Warren;One World Church

On October 1, 2008, Christianity Today released an article on their website titled: "After the Aloha Shirts." The article further reveals Rick Warren's hopes for an interfaith Purpose Driven new reformation. In the article, Warren states:

"We need to mobilize a billion Catholics and Orthodox [believers]. I'm not really that interested in interfaith dialogue. I am interested in interfaith projects. Let's do something together. You are probably not going to change your doctrinal distinctives, and I'm probably not going to change my doctrinal distinctives. We have different beliefs. But the fact is, we do serve the same Lord. Let's work on the things we can agree on."1

Below are other statements Rick Warren has made over the last few years to substantiate his view of a global church. You will see this "church" is not limited to born-again, biblical believers. On the contrary, it is a united religion suitable for the whole world and acceptable and complimentary to governments and businesses:

"The small group structure is the structure of renewal in every facet of Christianity - including Catholicism.... I would encourage you to look at this evolving alliance between evangelical Protestants and Catholics, particularly in the evangelical wing of Catholicism." --Rick Warren at the Pew Forum on Religion, May 23, 2005

"Who's the man of peace in any village - or it might be a woman of peace - who has the most respect, they're open and they're influential? They don't have to be a Christian. In fact, they could be a Muslim, but they're open and they're influential and you work with them to attack the five giants. And that's going to bring the second Reformation." at the Pew Forum on Religion

"Last week I spoke to 4,000 pastors at my church who came from over 100 denominations in over 50 countries. Now, that's wide spread. We had Catholic priests, we had Pentecostal ministers, we had Lutheran bishops, we had Anglican bishops, we had Baptist preachers." at the Pew Forum on Religion.

"You've heard me say many times that the greatest thing you can do with your life is tell somebody about Jesus ... if you help somebody secure their eternal destiny, that they spend the rest of their life in Heaven not Hell ...your life counts, your life matters because nothing matters more than helping get a person and their eternal destiny settled. They will be forever eternally grateful.... And I've always said that that was the greatest thing you can do with your life. I was wrong. There is one thing you can do greater than share Jesus Christ with somebody, and it is help start a church."- Sermon from 11/2003 when Rick Warren Announced His Global Peace Plan to Saddleback."

In an interview in August 2006 with Charlie Rose, Warren stated that we don't have to have the same religion or moral beliefs to work with people on poverty, disease, etc. As an example he said he just met with the President of the gay-activist group ACT UP, and asked him, "Eric [Sawyer], how can I help you get your message out?" Sawyer answered, "Use your moral authority." Warren then said to Rose, "I'm working with these guys ... I'm looking for a coalition of civility, which means let's get back to the original meaning of tolerance."

In contrast, Scripture states:

"My kingdom is not of this world."--Jesus (John 18:36)

"And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not." (John 1:5)

"And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them." (Ephesians 5:11)

"He [Jesus] was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not." (John 1:10)

"If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you."--Jesus (John 15:19)

"They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them. We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us." (I John 4: 5-6)

"I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world." (John 17:14)

"[K]now ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God?" (James 4:4)

"Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?" (II Corinthians 6:14)

"Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit." --Jesus (John 3:7-8)

Elijah was profoundly convinced that he was only a servant
Oct 9th, 2008
CommentaryMorning Meditation
Categories: Today's Headlines;Exhortation;Book Study

"Let it be known that thou are God in Israel; and that I am thy servant." It was not for the slave in olden times to plan, but to be pliant to the least expression of the master's will -- to be a tool in his hand, a chess-piece on the board for him to move just where he willed. And this was the attitude of Elijah's spirit -- surrendered, yielded, emptied; pliant to the hands that reach down out of heaven to mold men.

This attitude is the true one for us all. Are we not too fond of doing things for God, instead of letting God do what He chooses through us? We say, "We will go yonder, we will do this and that, we will work for God thus." We do not consider that we should first inquire if this is God's will for us. We do not recognize His absolute ownership. We often miss doing what He sorely wants us to do, because we insist on carrying out some little whim of our own. This is the blight on much of the activity of Christian people at the present time. They are not satisfied to be as the apostle Paul was, "the servant of Jesus Christ" (Romans 1:1). F. B. Meyer