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
The key to friendship with God, he said, is not changing what you do, but changing your attitude toward what you do.
God is always more interested in why we do something than in what we do. Attitudes count more than achievements.
Every human activity, except sin, can be done for God's pleasure, if you do it with an attitude of praise.
God does not want you to become a God; he wants you to become godly - taking on his values, attitudes, and character.
Great leaders inspire. They maintain a hopeful attitude, even in the face of discouraging setbacks, constant criticism and abundant opposition. People don't follow discouraged leaders. They follow those who persist with hope.
There's nothing in your life you can't learn from, if you respond with the right attitude.
In Eden, worship was not an event to attend, but a perpetual attitude.
You dont judge the strength of an army by how many soldiers sit and eat in the mess hall, but by how they perform on the front line. Likewise a churchs strength is not seen in how many show up, but in how many serve in the ministry.
Faithful servants never retire, ... You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God.
Life is all about stewardship. It all belongs to God - he just loans it to us for a short period of time. The first command God gave to man was to take care of the Earth, which includes managing and protecting the environment.
We really don't know when and where Joe began to display any signs of intoxication.
I'm Southern Baptist, our church is Southern Baptist, and we cooperate in SBC missions support at every level,
I think everybody has brokenness. There's no doubt about that. We live in a fallen world. This is not heaven. Everybody has scars. Everybody is hurting somewhere, I guarantee you that. Everyone has a hidden hurt.
It basically means the bar closes and everything you've got invested is lost.