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Mission America "Honorary Committee" list Dr. Joe Aldrich - Int'l Renewal Ministries Note Gospelcom.net icon [Amway connection] List has been moved tried to find it but no go. http://www.missionamerica.org/Brix?pageID=12737
Dear Friends: This weekend, I will begin teaching the most important series of messages we've ever taught in 23 years here at Saddleback church. We believe it is part of the beginning of a Spiritual Awakening, a Global Movement, a New Reformation. [Ednote: we are supposed to be in an Apostasy now according to the Bible] (DITC: Same terminology of the ICA and New Agers) During the five weekends of November, we'lll teach five messages on the P.E.A.C.E. plan: a strategy to have every small group in our church, and then tens of thousands of small groups in other churches, become engaged in solving the five biggest problems in the world: Spiritual Lostness, Lack of Godly Leaders, Poverty, Disease, and Lack of Education. (DITC: The Bible never prophesies that poverty and disease will be solved, except in the millenium.) These giant problems are so big that neither the governmnent, nor all the NGOs (non-government organzations) can tackle them. There is only one group large enough to tackle these global issues-the Christian church in all its local expressions around the world. Nothing else can compare to the distribution channel of the millions of churches around the world. [Ednote: this is the Social Gospel which has nothing to do the Great Commission. Origin is the Lausanne Covenant founded by Billy Graham in Switzerland years ago to bring all denominations under one roof by applying funding to social ills donated by Americans and tansferring public wealth [tax dollars] to 3rd world countries. This is where the immiagration problem is coming from. Too many promises made by the Pope and fulfillment to make him look good, became a reality. Billy Graham collaborated with the Pope. The Pope wants our hard earned dollars and our jobs.] (DITC: Missions and local churches are already doing what Warren now proposes, and have been for a century.) Even in villages where you cannot find a clinic, a store, a school, or a post office, you can often find a church. The PEACE Plan will address these five "giant" problems by Planting new churches... Equipping leaders... Assisting the poor...Caring for the sick... and Educating the next generation. These problems, and the answers, are not new. But the way we intend to tackle them using the small groups of local churches in large numbers is revolutionary. Each week in November we'll explain one of the 5 parts of the plan in detail. We've be listening, praying, and preparing for this launch for about a year, and we've sought the advice of respected national Christian leaders around the world. (DITC: Monsly Third Wave leadership) We have "tweaked" the plans often, and will continue to do so as we "learn by doing." Now we're ready to share the plan with our congregation, friends, and other interested congregations across America. The bottom line is that we intend to reinvent mission strategy in the 21st century. As I stated, this will be a new Reformation. The First Reformation returned us to the message of the original church. It was a reformation of doctrine - what the church BELIEVES. This Second Reformation will return us to the mission of the original church. It will be a reformation of purpose- what the church DOES in the world. (DITC: Looking at Warren's "Purpose Driven Church" book, I would say he has not experienced the first reformation yet, so how can he lead us into a second?) In the first century, mission strategy was always congregationally based. The first missionaries were sent, supported, and accountable to local churches. The church at Antioch was the first to do this. There were no mission societies, mission boards, or parachurch organizations. Local churches accepted the responsibility for Jesus' Great Commission and his Great Commandment, and the growth of the church worldwide was explosive. Today, most local churches are sidelined and uninvolved when it comes to missions. The message from most mission and parachurch organizations to the local church is essentially "Pray, pay, and get out of the way." (DITC: Strawman argument which is not true.) But in the 21st century, Kay and I intends to help thousands of other local churches to move back to the frontline in missions, in compassion, and in providing the social services that historically the church provided. I believe the proper role for all the great parachurch and relief organizations is to serve local churches in a supportive role, offering their expertise and knowledge, but allowing the local churches around the world to be central focus and the distribution centers. I deeply believe that any organization that marginalized or minimizes the local congregation's responsibility to "Go", or bypasses the local church's moral authority to fulfill the Great Commission, is out of sync with the strategy God intended, and modeled in the book of Acts. The continuing sales of The Purpose Driven Life are quite amazing. We are almost at the tipping point where Purpose Driven Life becomes a national phenomena. It will hit 10 milion copies sold by the end of December and has been on the New York Times hardback bestsellers longer than any other book this year (40 weeks) A couple weeks ago I did 6 TV interviews including Fox News Live, ABC, NBC, and CBN, so this spiritual awakening is starting to get the attention of the media. I now believe that know why God is blessing this book in such an unusual way. It is more than just a message thatGod wants to get out to everyone(which is huge). I now also see that God is using this phenomena to expand the platform for us to mobilize thousands of local churches for global world missions through the PEACE plan. Right now about 5,000 more churches are doing the 40 Day of Purpose campaign, and now the program has been adopted by corporations (like Coke and Walmart) sports teams (like the Oakland Raiders and Green Bay Packers, NASCAR drivers, and the LPGA) schools, civic clubs, and even prisons. Last week, Paul Harvey told everyone to go buy a copy of PDL on his ABC radio broadcast. He said "This is one of the most insightful books I've ever read and I will read it again...and again...and again." In 2004 we expect over 15,000 more churches to participate. The influence of the book keeps amazing me everyday as I get requests for autographed copies. In today's stack: I signed books for 1) All the Supreme Court Justices 2) One for Fidel Castro (!) 3) One for the President of Peru (these last 2 were spanish editions), and I recently got a note saying that everyone on Air Force One was reading the book recently. (DITC: Bragging, name dropping) But all this is not about us. God's intention is much bigger than the book. It's all about the global glory of God! We intend to leverage the attention that the Purpose Driven Life has garnered to bring about a whole new way of thinking and acting in the church about our responsibility in the world. This is a stewardship we must be faithful to fulfill-with humility, generosity, and integrity. (DITC: Bragging and name dropping are not humility and there is no integrity in using false arguments and misinterpreting Scripture.) If you'd like to watch the PEACE series on the internet, we've created a special webpage for you to do so without being needing a Saddleback membership code.All you need to do is click on this url www.saddleback.com/peaceplan . It will launch a page that will give you three options. 1. You can print an outline of the message. 2. You can watch one of our 6 weekend services online (times are given, and 3. You can watch the Archived services of any of the five services you miss in the PEACE plan series. God bless you friends. For the Global Glory of God! (DITC: Who gets the glory in this letter? Where is Jesus Christ, the Gospel or the cross mentioned?) http://www.saddleback.com/home/todaystory.asp?id=6213
"Purpose Driven" web site Statement Of Faith 1. We believe the Bible to be inspired, the only infallible, authoritative Word of God. (DITC: Where is inerrancy?) http://www.purposedriven.com/content.aspx?id=189 Saddleback's "Doctrinal Statement" #1 God is bigger and better and closer than we can imagine. (DITC: Doesn't this sound like they are treating their people like little children?) http://www.saddleback.com/flash/believe.html Saddleback's "Doctrinal Statement" #2 - Sin Every person, although endowed with the image of God, inherited a disobedient heart from Adam, the very first man. This attitude of disobedience (called sin in the Bible) - unless rectified through Christ - forever keeps man from forming a relationship with his Creator. (DITC: Does man simply have an attitude of disobedience, or is he entirely sinful?) http://www.saddleback.com/flash/believe2.html Saddleback's "Doctrinal Statement" #2 - Rapture What is the second coming of Jesus? God, in His own time and in His own way, will bring the world to its appropriate end. According to His promise, Jesus Christ will return personally and visibly in glory to the earth; the dead will be raised; and Christ will judge all men in righteousness. (DITC: Where is the Rapture?) http://www.saddleback.com/flash/believe2.html Warren is featured in Sattelite Seminars from Community Full Gospel Church Satellite Seminars Community Church is committed to being a blessing to the area. One way we are doing this is through cutting-edge training programs via live, interactive satellite broadcasts. Through agreements with the Church Communications Network; Injoy; and Saddleback Church, Community Church is a host site for unique seminars and top speakers from around the country on a monthly basis. For minimum cost and maximum convenience residents from the area can hear, learn and interact with speakers such as John Maxwell, Rick Warren, C. Peter Wagner, George Barna, Carl George and Ted Haggard. Seminar topics range from Marriage Secrets to Successful Leadership to Understanding the New Senior Adult. (DITC: Community Full Gospel Church also recommends the ministry of Tommy Tenney on their site. http://www.church4you.org/links.htm http://www.church4you.org/About_Us/ministries.htm Tommy Tenney lists Warren as a "top influencer" Top Influencers and their ministries. T.D. Jakes http://www.godchasers.net/index.cfm/PageID/442/cfid/426670/cftoken/26412427/ C. Peter Wagner Praises Warren's methods Rick Warren, who leads Saddleback Valley Community Church in Mission Viejo, California, administers with a five-member board a congregation that surpassed 6,000 in worship in 1993. Warren chairs the board. The four other members are key staff that he hired and can fire. "I want only fulltime thinkers making decisions," he said. The congregation meets annually, and at that time can vote his removal.21 (21 Rick Warren, a field interview at Saddleback Church, "Foundations of Church Growth," Fuller Theological Seminary, March 1993.) At New Life Church and Saddleback, the organization is pared to empower leaders. It is developed on the basis of trust in the grace of God at work through individuals that God calls to leadership. C. Peter Wagner notes that the most revolutionary principle in the churches that are driving the expansion of Christianity is the trust and empowerment of the individual. He puts it this way: Of all the radical elements of change in the New Apostolic Reformation, I regard one of them to be the most radical of all. It is so important that I have chosen these words very carefully: The amount of spiritual authority delegated by the Holy Spirit to the individuals [italics his].22 (Wagner, Churchquake, 75.) http://www.bethanyum.com/thesis/chapter7.pdf http://www.leadnet.org/allthingsln/archives/NEXT/january99.pdf Warren's books are being sold by TBN http://www.parable.com/tbn/item_0310205719.htm&ct=Author_Biography Warren is listed in the TBN address book Warren, Pastor Rick http://216.122.167.8/links/AddressBook/W.htm CBN publishes articles by Rick Warren http://www.cbn.com/spirituallife/inspirationalteaching/Warren_RighttoFighta.asp Rick Warren Endorsed "Every Man, God's Man" by Kenny Luck (Promise Keepers men's movement book) "Every Man God's Man is about a personal resurgence of
purpose". Rick Warren writes, "Kenny Luck has been quietly helping men in our church going on fourteen years now, and Steve Arterburn has been as stand-in preacher and minister here for years. During this time both of these men have come alongside countless men and shared their lives and love for God's word in small groups, at our retreats, and in teaching our men's morning Bible study. Their passion and gift for helping men are well known in our church-most famously among the wives. But more special to me than Kenny and Steve's ability to get into a man's space and take him to the next level of Christian manhood is their ownership of their message. The have both fought and won tough battles, overcome setbacks, and diligently pursued a practical holiness that speaks powerfully to men of all ages. If you'll read with a humble and open heart, Every Man, God's Man will make you uncomfortable, inspire you to positive change, and get you pumped about taking new risks in your faith. Most important, God will use the insights in this book to advance His kingdom in your heart and by, doing so, advance His purposes in the world. The book in your hands is not about the resolution of a man's problems; it's about a personal resurgence of purpose. That excites me." From the forward of Every Man, God's Man http://www.everymanministries.com/press.html Rick Warren was a speaker at the "Beyond All Limits" Conference in 2002 Emcees for the Beyond All Limits Pastor's Conference are Mr. Steve Douglass, the President of Campus Crusade For Christ, and Dr. James O. Davis, the President of Cutting Edge International. Mr. Terry MacAlmon, Worship Leader, is an accomplished song writer and artist. Terry and his family are members of Rev. Ted Haggard's New Life Church in Colorado Springs. Speakers include: Jack Hayford http://www.agts.edu/conferences/beyond_all_limits.html Rick Warren wrote a loving tribute to John Wimber, which is listed on the Vineyard site Rick Warren |
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