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    The Purpose Driven Church: Growth Without Compromising Your Message and Mission
    The Purpose Driven Church: Growth Without Compromising Your Message and Mission
    The Purpose Driven Church: Growth Without Compromising Your Message and Mission
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    The Purpose Driven Church: Growth Without Compromising Your Message and Mission

    Written by Rick Warren

    Narrated by Dr. Rick Warren and Jay Charles

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    Every church is driven by something. Tradition, finances, programs, personalities, events, seekers, and even buildings can each be the controlling force in a church. But Rick Warren believers that in order for a church to be healthy if must become a purpose-driven church by Jesus. Now the founding pastor of Saddleback Church shares a proven five-part strategy that will enable your church to grow. . .- Warmer through fellowship - Deeper through discipleship - Stronger through worship - Broader through ministry - Larger through evangelism. Discover the same practical insights and principles for growing a healthy church that Rick has taught in seminars to over 22,000 pastors and church leaders from sixty denominations and forty-two countries. The Purpose Driven Church® shifts the focus away from church building programs to emphasizing a people-building process. Warren says, "If you will concentrate on building people, God will build the church."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherZondervan
    Release dateNov 19, 2003
    ISBN9780310260899
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    Rick Warren

    Como pastor fundador de la Iglesia Saddleback, el doctor Rick Warren dirige una congregación de 30,000 miembros en California, con filiales en las principales ciudades de todo el mundo. Como autor, su libro Una vida con propósito, es uno de los libros de no ficción más vendidos en la historia. Como teólogo, ha dictado conferencias en Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, la Universidad del Judaísmo y decenas de universidades y seminarios. Como estratega global, asesora a líderes mundiales y ha hablado para las Naciones Unidas, el Congreso de los EUA, el Foro Económico en Davos, TED, el Instituto Aspen y numerosos parlamentos. Rick también ha fundado el Plan Global P.E.A.C.E., que Planta iglesias de reconciliación, Equipa líderes, Ayuda a los pobres, Cuida de los enfermos y Educa a la próxima generación en 196 países.

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    • 5/5
      This is Gold, i highly recommend it to just anyone and everyone
    • 4/5
      "I have ambivalent feelings toward Rick Warren. I like him because God has used him to reach so many people for Christ. At the same time, it perplexes me that he is able use the common language in order to accomplish it. This just doesn't fit my personality in how I preach the Gospel. In fact it doesn't even fit the pathos of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary or a large percentage of Bostonians. Yet, Haddon Robison, the preaching professor at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, wrote that a "wise pastor should read [it] three times," and Robinson has an extensive vocabulary.Please do not misunderstand me. I praise God for Rick Warren's ministry, because people are being saved. This is what the Gospel is all about. Yet, I have difficulty in comprehending how a man has the ability to preach the Gospel to so many people with such a common vocabulary? I tend to want to use larger words when needed. For I feel it’s always fitting to use the most precise word within their context. I even concluded that if the word is in a newspaper, encyclopedia or magazine it's fair game to use in a sermon. Yet, it seems the majority of the people - educated or not - like to hear sermons in the common language, rather than with big words.So here is my dilemma. Either I begin using more common words, which doesn't fit my personality. Or I can take a key theme from “The Purpose Driven Church,” which is to be myself, and allow God to work through me. I find the latter approach to be more effective. This grants me the ability to be more authentic. It also seems to be the similiar approach for the news commentator Dennis Miller. His story is that he was tired of having poor test scores in high school that he decided to broaden his vocabulary by literally studying all the SAT words he could. Now, he is considered to have a very large vocabulary, and is able to communicate very well to his audience. Consequently, I don't consider having a slew of words like Dennis Miller. However, I was also sick of getting bad grades. Thus, it has become my mission to have a large vocabulary, in order to be more effective in communicating to others.So even though Rick Warren chooses to preach the Gospel to people through his personality, I believe that God can use my personality to also preach the Gospel, even if it's different from Rick Warren's choice of words."
    • 4/5
      Rick Warren presents the structure, philosophy, and theology that are the foundation for Saddleback Church. While a prescription for the megachurch of which he is the lead pastor, it is written as a guide for utilizing these principles to structure your church without suggesting that this is the only way to structure a church.
    • 5/5
      Rick Warren's seminal work on the core purpose of church and using the experiences he has gained from planting and building Saddleback Church in California
    • 4/5
      the subtitle should be "A Jesuit Handbook for Taking over the Protestant Church" ... just kidding.