In an interview between Rick Warren and a Philippine newspaper (published today, July 30th, in the Philippine Daily Inquirer), Warren said:
“For the stability of a nation, you must have strong healthy government, strong healthy businesses, and strong healthy churches.
A three-legged stool will have stability. So I’m going from country to country teaching business its role, teaching church its role, and teaching government leaders their role-you’ve got to work together! We cannot solve the problem in your country or in the world if we won’t work together.”
With now around “400,000 churches” in the Purpose-Driven network, it is becoming obvious to many that the world is becoming a Purpose Driven world. Warren has made it clear time and again that his purpose is to bring church, government and business together so the world’s problems can be eliminated. Ultimately this plan will include any religion, any government and any business. Currently, Warren is “working on the Catholic workbook for the “Purpose Driven Life” that has been written by some priests in America” (see interview). In the past, Warren has stated that Muslims can also be part of this plan.
In Warren’s first book, Purpose Driven Church, he said that the Spiritual Formation movement (mentioning Richard Foster as a key player in this) is a “valid message for the church” and “a wake-up call” to the body of Christ.(see p. 145, A Time of Departing) The Spiritual Formation movement is a vehicle through which contemplative spirituality and the New Age is racing into the church. New Agers believe that it is through mysticism (i.e., meditation) that the world will become as one and realize their divinity. Theosophist Alice Bailey, who coined the term New Age, said that this time of global oneness would come to the world, not around the Christian church, but rather through it. Is this possibly what we are seeing take place before our very eyes today? With nearly every major Christian organization and leader now promoting contemplative spirituality, and couple that with the emerging church movement (which without contemplative would be nothing more than couches, candles and coffee), mysticism and the New Age are overtaking Christendom and the world at large. And it is becoming more and more apparent to those of us who are watching this scenario unfold that “the Purpose-Driven paradigm could very well be providing an avenue not for a new reformation and spiritual awakening from God but rather for a descent into spiritual apostasy.” (Yungen, ATOD)
“Personal computers have brand names. But inside every pc is an Intel chip and an operating system. Windows…. The Purpose Driven paradigm is the Intel chip for the 21st-century church and the Windows system of the 21st-century church.” Rick Warren, Christianity Today, Oct. 2005
“[W]e are possibly on the verge of a new reformation in Christianity and another Great Awakening in our nation … The signs are everywhere, including the popularity of this book.” Rick Warren, Baptist Press, Sept. 2004
“I really do feel that these people are brothers and sisters in God’s family. I am looking to build bridges with the Orthodox Church, looking to build bridges with the Catholic Church, with the Anglican church.” Rick Warren at Anglican conference, 11/05
Related information:
The Philippine Inquirer July 30th interview with Rick Warren
To fully understand the contemplative prayer movement and how it is coming into the church through Purpose Driven, emerging church and other avenues, read A Time of Departing
and Running Against the Wind.
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“And they said, ‘Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.’ But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. And the LORD said, ‘Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them.'” Genesis 11: 4-6
“Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons.” I Timothy 4:1
“Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.'” John 14:6
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