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
If you want to find your purpose in life, find your wound.
If your activities don't match your priorities, you are wasting your life.
If you don't know how to do it, get around someone else who does.
If others don't use their gifts, you get cheated, and if you don;t use your gifts, they get cheated.
If you aren't serving, you're just existing, because life is meant for ministry.
If God was small enough for you to completely understand him, he wouldn't be big enough for you to completely trust him.
If you prayed as much as you worry, you'd have nothing to worry about.
If you talked to others the way you talk to yourself, would you have any friends?
There's nothing in your life you can't learn from, if you respond with the right attitude.
You can learn from anyone if you know the right questions.
The small group structure is the structure of renewal in every facet of Christianity, including Catholicism,
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.
I'm Southern Baptist, our church is Southern Baptist, and we cooperate in SBC missions support at every level,
The role of the church and the government are fundamentally different. The church must always show compassion - always.