The Purpose-Driven Church: Growth Without Compromising Your Message & Mission

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	The Purpose-Driven Church: Growth Without Compromising Your Message & Mission Rick Warren Zondervan, 1995 - 400 pages average customer review:based on 125 reviews view larger image
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Purpose Driven Church

This is an excellent, must have handbook for all Pastors, Church Staff Members, and Leaders. This book sites the laws and directions of Christ and his apostles in the formation and purpose of His Church. The Church exists for Christ's purpose not our own. It is each church's responsibility to seek the purpose Christ has for them and then it is their job to set about to do it. Warren backs up everything in his book. It was fun to read and it was exciting to see the potential of each church if they just seek Christ for their purpose.

This book does not need ANOTHER review but...

Forget all the hub bub, take the book at face value, and you'll find this is a great book with a lot of practical ideas for churches.

Unfortunately, any time anything "Christian" gets extremely popular, people starting crawling out of the woodwork to warn us that it's satanic, decieving, or unbiblical, and I don't buy into that logic. Neither should you.

Does "purpose-driven" sound very much like a business idea? Sure it does! Does that mean it's automatically unbiblical? Absolutely not. Think about it... we heard the same thing about contemporary Christian music. People worked hard to spread the alarm that it was satanic because it sounded like regular popular music on the radio. So what? Popularity does not equal satanic. Most of the critical reviews I've read on this website are a little ridiculous. For example, one reviewer criticizes Warren for stating that a healthy church should be growing. In the reviewer's opinion, the Bible clearly states that Jesus' teaching drove some people away. I would agree. However, the Bible also says that HUGE CROWDS showed up to hear Him preach. I'm no historian, but I'm willing to bet that a gathering of 5000 people back in Jesus' day was about the equivalent of a million-man march today. I'm also quite sure that besides the 22,000 attendees at Warren's church in Southern California, there are THOUSANDS more that aren't coming to hear God's word. My point is that the logic of many of these critics of the book just doesn't work.

The bottom line for me is that Rick Warren loves Jesus and he has a passion for leading unchurched people to meet his Savior. You can see that in every paragraph of every chapter of this book. God has gifted him and blessed his ministry. Warren is a theologian who has a broad appeal because he doesn't sound like one; he sounds like a normal guy who loves Jesus. I like that.

I didn't find anything unbiblical in this book. It is encouraging and full of great ideas to help churches understand their mission and reach unbelievers. If you don't want to do that, don't read this book.

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This book is a good read to those in search of new evangelistic ideas. I must say that Rick Warren is one of the first group of pastors to bring church's into a new age

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