Rick Warren
Rick Warren
Richard Duane "Rick" Warrenis an American evangelical Christian pastor and author. He is the founder and senior pastor of Saddleback Church, an evangelical megachurch in Lake Forest, California, that is the eighth-largest church in the United States. He is also a bestselling author of many Christian books, including his guide to church ministry and evangelism, The Purpose Driven Church, which has spawned a series of conferences on Christian ministry and evangelism. He is perhaps best known for the subsequent book...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth28 January 1954
CitySan Jose, CA
CountryUnited States of America
I want to change my circumstances. God wants to change me.
As Christians we’re called to belong, not just to believe. We are not meant to live lone-ranger lives; instead, we are to belong to Christ’s family and be members of his body.
In pain, I'd rather walk with Jesus with all of my questions, than walk by myself with all the answers.
Leadership starts with understanding responsibility, not ability. Leadership is a Stewardship, not a show.
Nothing else you do will ever matter as much as helping people establish an eternal relationship with God.
Building friendships with people from dissimilar backgrounds and diverse perspectives will make you wiser and more creative.
This drive to always want more is based on the misconceptions that having more will make me more happy, more important, and more secure, but all three ideas are untrue. Possessions only provide temporary happiness. Because things do not change, we eventually become bored with them and then want newer, bigger, better versions.
I think vision is highly overrated today. I think what really blesses a ministry is, if you want the power of God in your life, its humility and integrity. I'll take a person who's humble and has integrity over a person who has vision any day. A lot of people have vision just based on ego, but it's in that dependence upon God that we get His vision and develop more trust in Him.
War is and always has been a brutal exercise that destroys lives, families and communities. It is never something for which we hope.
That's the big difference between Christianity and other religions. The difference between Works and Grace or Do and Done.
When real revival happens, it changes the moral climate of a community...because we've turned from our wicked ways.
Measured against eternity, our time on earth is just a blink of an eye, but the consequences of it will last forever.
History shows that when the church accommodates culture, it weakens it.
You won't step on other's toes if you imagine yourself in their shoes.