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
Don't waste your pain; use it to help others.
People aren't things to be molded; they are lives to be unfolded. And that's what true leaders do. They unfold the lives of others and help them reach their God-given potential.
We are only fully alive when we're helping others
We are healed to help others. We are blessed to be a blessing. We are saved to serve, not to sit around and wait for heaven.
The only really happy people are those who have learned how to serve.
Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. Don’t waste your pain; use it to help others.
In the Old Testament, it says that if you have the power to do something good, then you have to do it. You're not to avoid helping somebody in their time of need.
I hope that the community will cooperate and not hassle the clerks with what they have to do. It's a good store and serves a good need to the community.
OK, here's a Christian pastor writing a book that a Jewish lady is passing on to a Muslim lady.
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.
The small group structure is the structure of renewal in every facet of Christianity, including Catholicism,
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.
What's in your heart? ... What disturbs you?
Faithful servants never retire, ... You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God.