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Until now, no mainstream news organization has dared call into question the &#8220;People&#8217;s Pastor&#8221; and his Purpose Driven Life.<\/p>\n<p>Not unlike the infamous pedophile scandals of the Catholic Church, it too has taken years to get this protestant perversion out of the closet and into the view of public scrutiny &#8211; Bible believing Christians being ostracized, even thrown out of their churches for resisting the herd &#8211; ridiculed and railroaded for holding faithfully to the Word of God rather than the wily words of a man named Warren.<\/p>\n<p>In the last half dozen years of researching the church growth movement, I wrote and warned and waited for Christian news organizations to acknowledge this postmodern pestilence and get the word out to spare the flock. <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170204145544\/http:\/\/www.newswithviews.com\/PaulProctor\/proctor99.htm\">Click here to read the rest of this story.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Paul Proctor This is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":32173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[334,2168],"class_list":["post-3900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-progressive-emerging-church","tag-paul-proctor","tag-proctor","wpcat-25-id"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.4 (Yoast SEO v28.4) - 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