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
A church will never grow beyond its capacity to meet needs.
God is love. He didn't need us. But he wanted us.
You never know God is all you need until God is all you have.
He created the church to meet your five deepest needs: a purpose to live for, people to live with, principles to live by, a profession to live out, and power to live on. There is no other place on earth where you can find all five of these benefits in one place.
You need to doubt your doubts & believe your beliefs.
Mother Teresa once said, "Holy living consists in doing God's work with a smile." ... The last thing many believers need is to go to another Bible study.
Many people, especially men, feel it is an admission of weakness to ask for help or to express a need. But there is absolutely no shame in needing others.
People respond to vision, not need.
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.
You will be tempted by the need to feed yourself.
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.